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How to get child nodes without grandchildren and great-grandchildren? Closure Table pattern

I am using tree storage. Closure Table pattern.

https://towardsdatascience.com/closure-table-pattern-to-model-hierarchies-in-nosql-c1be6a87e05b

How to get child nodes without grandchildren and great-grandchildren?

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I have a sql query:

SELECT p.id, p.name, count(*) - l.level AS level 
FROM   tree_Path t, 
       ( SELECT count(*) -1 AS level 
         FROM tree_path 
         WHERE children = 3
       ) l, 
       (  SELECT * 
          FROM category_name f 
               INNER JOIN tree_Path t 
                    ON f.id = t.children 
           WHERE t.parent = 3 
           AND t.children!=t.parent
        ) p 
WHERE p.children = t.children 
GROUP BY p.id, p.name, l.level;

It returns a complete tree of descendants, including grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

    +----+----------------------------+-------+
    | id | name                       | level |
    +----+----------------------------+-------+
    |  7 | Audio & Video Accessories  |     2 |
    |  8 | Camera & Photo Accessories |     2 |
    | 15 | 3D Glasses                 |     3 |
    | 16 | Antennas                   |     3 |
    | 17 | Accessory Bundles          |     3 |
    | 18 | Bags & Cases               |     3 |
    +----+----------------------------+-------+

I need to return my children without grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

    +----+----------------------------+-------+
    | id | name                       | level |
    +----+----------------------------+-------+
    |  7 | Audio & Video Accessories  |     2 |
    |  8 | Camera & Photo Accessories |     2 |
    +----+----------------------------+-------+

How to do it?

DB TEST

-- phpMyAdmin SQL Dump
-- version 5.1.0
-- https://www.phpmyadmin.net/
--
-- Host: localhost
-- Generation Time: Aug 02, 2021 at 01:15 PM
-- Server version: 8.0.25
-- PHP Version: 8.0.3

SET SQL_MODE = "NO_AUTO_VALUE_ON_ZERO";
START TRANSACTION;
SET time_zone = "+00:00";


/*!40101 SET @OLD_CHARACTER_SET_CLIENT=@@CHARACTER_SET_CLIENT */;
/*!40101 SET @OLD_CHARACTER_SET_RESULTS=@@CHARACTER_SET_RESULTS */;
/*!40101 SET @OLD_COLLATION_CONNECTION=@@COLLATION_CONNECTION */;
/*!40101 SET NAMES utf8mb4 */;

--
-- Database: `closure_table`
--

-- --------------------------------------------------------

--
-- Table structure for table `category_name`
--

CREATE TABLE `category_name` (
  `id` bigint NOT NULL,
  `name` varchar(255) COLLATE utf8mb4_ru_0900_ai_ci DEFAULT NULL
) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8mb4 COLLATE=utf8mb4_ru_0900_ai_ci;

--
-- Dumping data for table `category_name`
--

INSERT INTO `category_name` (`id`, `name`) VALUES
(1, 'Electronics'),
(2, 'Computers'),
(3, 'Accessories & Supplies'),
(4, 'Camera & Photo'),
(5, 'Computer accessories and peripherals'),
(6, 'Computer components'),
(7, 'Audio & Video Accessories'),
(8, 'Camera & Photo Accessories'),
(9, 'Accessories'),
(10, 'Bags & Cases'),
(11, 'Audio & Video Accessories'),
(12, 'Blank Media'),
(13, 'Computer screws'),
(14, 'Table Barebones'),
(15, '3D Glasses'),
(16, 'Antennas'),
(17, 'Accessory Bundles'),
(18, 'Bags & Cases'),
(19, 'Accessory Kits'),
(20, 'Bags & Cases'),
(21, 'Bag & Case Accessories'),
(22, 'Binocular Cases'),
(23, 'Computer headsets'),
(24, 'Computer microphones'),
(25, 'Discs BD-R'),
(26, 'Discs BD-RE'),
(27, 'bolts'),
(28, 'frame'),
(29, 'lamps'),
(30, 'coasters');

-- --------------------------------------------------------

--
-- Table structure for table `tree_path`
--

CREATE TABLE `tree_path` (
  `children` bigint NOT NULL,
  `parent` bigint NOT NULL
) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8mb4 COLLATE=utf8mb4_ru_0900_ai_ci;

--
-- Dumping data for table `tree_path`
--

INSERT INTO `tree_path` (`children`, `parent`) VALUES
(1, 1),
(3, 1),
(4, 1),
(7, 1),
(8, 1),
(9, 1),
(10, 1),
(15, 1),
(16, 1),
(17, 1),
(18, 1),
(19, 1),
(20, 1),
(21, 1),
(22, 1),
(2, 2),
(5, 2),
(6, 2),
(11, 2),
(12, 2),
(13, 2),
(14, 2),
(23, 2),
(24, 2),
(25, 2),
(26, 2),
(27, 2),
(28, 2),
(29, 2),
(30, 2),
(3, 3),
(7, 3),
(8, 3),
(15, 3),
(16, 3),
(17, 3),
(18, 3),
(4, 4),
(9, 4),
(10, 4),
(19, 4),
(20, 4),
(21, 4),
(22, 4),
(5, 5),
(11, 5),
(12, 5),
(23, 5),
(24, 5),
(25, 5),
(26, 5),
(6, 6),
(13, 6),
(14, 6),
(27, 6),
(28, 6),
(29, 6),
(30, 6),
(7, 7),
(15, 7),
(16, 7),
(8, 8),
(17, 8),
(18, 8),
(9, 9),
(19, 9),
(20, 9),
(10, 10),
(21, 10),
(22, 10),
(11, 11),
(23, 11),
(24, 11),
(12, 12),
(25, 12),
(26, 12),
(13, 13),
(27, 13),
(28, 13),
(14, 14),
(29, 14),
(30, 14),
(15, 15),
(16, 16),
(17, 17),
(18, 18),
(19, 19),
(20, 20),
(21, 21),
(22, 22),
(23, 23),
(24, 24),
(25, 25),
(26, 26),
(27, 27),
(28, 28),
(29, 29),
(30, 30);

--
-- Indexes for dumped tables
--

--
-- Indexes for table `category_name`
--
ALTER TABLE `category_name`
  ADD PRIMARY KEY (`id`);

--
-- Indexes for table `tree_path`
--
ALTER TABLE `tree_path`
  ADD PRIMARY KEY (`children`,`parent`),
  ADD KEY `FK_PARENT` (`parent`);

--
-- AUTO_INCREMENT for dumped tables
--

--
-- AUTO_INCREMENT for table `category_name`
--
ALTER TABLE `category_name`
  MODIFY `id` bigint NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT, AUTO_INCREMENT=31;

--
-- Constraints for dumped tables
--

--
-- Constraints for table `tree_path`
--
ALTER TABLE `tree_path`
  ADD CONSTRAINT `FK_CHILDREN` FOREIGN KEY (`children`) REFERENCES `category_name` (`id`) ON DELETE CASCADE,
  ADD CONSTRAINT `FK_PARENT` FOREIGN KEY (`parent`) REFERENCES `category_name` (`id`) ON DELETE CASCADE;
COMMIT;

/*!40101 SET CHARACTER_SET_CLIENT=@OLD_CHARACTER_SET_CLIENT */;
/*!40101 SET CHARACTER_SET_RESULTS=@OLD_CHARACTER_SET_RESULTS */;
/*!40101 SET COLLATION_CONNECTION=@OLD_COLLATION_CONNECTION */;
Solution

  • Assuming you want level = 2 results and no greater descendants, use a HAVING clause:

    SELECT p.id, p.name, count(*) - l.level AS levelx
FROM   tree_path t, 
       ( SELECT count(*) -1 AS level 
         FROM tree_path 
         WHERE children = 3
       ) l, 
       (  SELECT * 
          FROM category_name f 
               INNER JOIN tree_path t 
                    ON f.id = t.children 
           WHERE t.parent = 3 
           AND t.children!=t.parent
        ) p 
WHERE p.children = t.children 
GROUP BY p.id, p.name, l.level
HAVING levelx = 2
;

    See your SQL in a fiddle:

    Working test case with adjusted SQL with HAVING clause