/// <summary>
/// Bind an orderby option
/// </summary>
/// <param name="syntax">a syntac tree containing the orderby option</param>
/// <param name="rangeVariable">the range variable that iterates over the top level collection</param>
/// <param name="path">the top level path</param>
/// <returns>an OrderByClause representing this orderby option</returns>
public OrderByClause BindOrderBy(SyntacticTree syntax, RangeVariable rangeVariable, ODataPath path)
{
if (syntax.OrderByTokens != null && syntax.OrderByTokens.Any())
{
if (rangeVariable == null || !path.EdmType().IsEntityCollection())
{
throw new ODataException(ODataErrorStrings.MetadataBinder_QueryOptionNotApplicable("$orderby"));
}
OrderByBinder orderByBinder = new OrderByBinder(this.bindMethod);
return(orderByBinder.BindOrderBy(this.bindingState, syntax.OrderByTokens));
}
return(null);
}
/// <summary>
/// Parses a <paramref name="orderBy "/> clause on the given <paramref name="elementType"/>, binding
/// the text into semantic nodes using the provided model.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="orderBy">String representation of the orderby expression.</param>
/// <param name="elementType">Type that the orderby clause refers to.</param>
/// <param name="entitySet">EntitySet that the elements beign filtered are from.</param>
/// <returns>A <see cref="OrderByClause"/> representing the metadata bound orderby expression.</returns>
private OrderByClause ParseOrderByImplementation(string orderBy, IEdmType elementType, IEdmEntitySet entitySet)
{
ExceptionUtils.CheckArgumentNotNull(this.configuration.Model, "model");
ExceptionUtils.CheckArgumentNotNull(elementType, "elementType");
ExceptionUtils.CheckArgumentNotNull(orderBy, "orderBy");
// Get the syntactic representation of the filter expression
UriQueryExpressionParser expressionParser = new UriQueryExpressionParser(this.Settings.OrderByLimit);
var orderByQueryTokens = expressionParser.ParseOrderBy(orderBy);
// Bind it to metadata
BindingState state = new BindingState(this.configuration);
state.ImplicitRangeVariable = NodeFactory.CreateImplicitRangeVariable(elementType.ToTypeReference(), entitySet);
state.RangeVariables.Push(state.ImplicitRangeVariable);
MetadataBinder binder = new MetadataBinder(state);
OrderByBinder orderByBinder = new OrderByBinder(binder.Bind);
OrderByClause orderByClause = orderByBinder.BindOrderBy(state, orderByQueryTokens);
return(orderByClause);
}
