MarkLogic 12 EA 1 Product Documentation

ModifyPlan.prototype.joinLeftOuter

ModifyPlan.prototype.joinLeftOuter(
   rightPlan as String,
   [ondef as String],
   [condition as xs.boolean]
) as ModifyPlan

Summary

This method yields one output row set with the rows from an inner join as well as the other rows from the left row set.

The join performs natural joins between columns with the same identifiers. To prevent inadvertent natural joins, specify a different qualifier for the left or right columns or use different column names for the left and right columns.

Usage Notes

joinLeftOuter is a method of the following classes:

• AccessPlan
• ModifyPlan

The library functions for building the joinLeftOuter parameters are as follows:

• op.on

Example

// Calculate the total expenses for each employee and return results in order of employee number.

const op = require('/MarkLogic/optic');

const employees = op.fromView('main', 'employees');
const expenses = op.fromView('main', 'expenses');
const totalexpenses  = op.col('totalexpenses');
const Plan =
employees.joinLeftOuter(expenses, op.on(employees.col('EmployeeID'), expenses.col('EmployeeID')))
   .groupBy(employees.col('EmployeeID'), ['FirstName', 'LastName', expenses.col('Category'),
    op.sum(totalexpenses, expenses.col('Amount'))])
   .orderBy('EmployeeID')
Plan.result();