How to combine multiple criteria in OR query dynamically in Play Morphia - playframework-1.x

Question

I am trying to use a kind of builder pattern to build an OR query using multiple criteria depending upon the scenario. An example is
public class Stylist extends Model {
public String firstName;
public String lastName;
public String status;
...
}
I would like to search Stylist collection if the first name or last name matches a given string and also status matches another string. I am writing the query as follows:
MorphiaQuery query = Stylist.q();
if (some condition) {
query.or(query.criteria("status").equal("PendingApproval"), query.criteria("status").equal(EntityStatus.ACTIVE));
}
if (some other condition as well) {
query.or(query.criteria("firstName").containsIgnoreCase(name), query.criteria("lastName").containsIgnoreCase(name));
}
When both the conditions are met, I see that query contains only the criteria related to firstName and lastName i.e. different OR criteria are not added/appended but overwritten. It's quite different from filter criteria where all the different filter conditions are appended and you can easily build queries containing multiple AND conditions.
I can solve the problem by putting my conditions differently and building my queries differently but doesn't seem to be an elegant way. Am I doing something wrong ?
I am using Play! Framework 1.2.4 and Play Morphia module version 1.2.5a
Update
To put it more clearly, I would like to AND multiple OR queries. Concretely, in the above mentioned scenario, I would like to
I would like to search for Stylists where :
firstName or lastName contains supplied name AND
status equals ACTIVE or PENDING_APPROVAL.
I have been able to construct the query directly on Mongo shell through :
db.stylists.find({$and: [{$or : [{status: "PENDING_APPROVAL"}, {status : "ACTIVE"}]},{$or : [{firstName : { "$regex" : "test" , "$options" : "i"}}, {lastName : { "$regex" : "test" , "$options" : "i"}}]}] }).pretty();
But have not able to achieve the same through Query API methods. Here is my attempt :
Query<Stylist> query = MorphiaPlugin.ds().find(Stylist.class);
CriteriaContainer or3 = query.or(query.criteria("firstName").containsIgnoreCase(name), query.criteria("lastName").containsIgnoreCase(name));
CriteriaContainer or4 = query.or(query.criteria("status").equal("PENDING_APPROVAL"), query.criteria("status").equal("ACTIVE"));
query.and(or3, or4);
query.toString() results in following output : { "$or" : [ { "status" : "PENDING_APPROVAL"} , { "status" : "ACTIVE"}]}
Not sure, where am I missing ?

Answer 1

I guess there could be 2 ways to handle your case:
first, use List<Criteria>
MorphiaQuery query = Stylist.q();
List<Criteria> l = new ArrayList<Criteria>()
if (some condition) {
l.add(query.criteria("status").equals("PendingApproval");
l.add(query.criteria("status").equal(EntityStatus.ACTIVE));
}
if (some other conditional as well) {
l.add(query.criteria("firstName").containsIgnoreCase(name));
l.add(query.criteria("lastName").containsIgnoreCase(name));
}
query.or(l.toArray());
Second, use CritieriaContainer
MorphiaQuery query = Stylist.q();
CriteriaContainer cc = null;
if (some condition) {
cc = query.or(query.criteria("status").equal("PendingApproval"), query.criteria("status").equal(EntityStatus.ACTIVE));
}
if (some other condition) {
if (null != cc) query.or(cc, query.criteria("firstName").containsIgnoreCase(name), query.criteria("lastName").containsIgnoreCase(name));
else query.or(query.criteria("firstName").containsIgnoreCase(name), query.criteria("lastName").containsIgnoreCase(name));
}