Make @SqlUpdate able to return the generated keys

As I checked, the Update does have a method executeAndReturnGeneratedKeys to return the insert statement’s generated keys. But when I use the SqlObject api @SqlUpdate, it only returns the updated rows count. What about to add a property in @SqlUpdate to tell the UpdateHandler to return the generated keys?

[stevenschlansker]

At least in Postgres, you can e.g. INSERT ... RETURNING * and then use @SqlQuery instead and it should work. Not sure about other databases.

[oludouglas]

From the little research I’ve done online, you can just annotate the method like this. @SqlUpdate(“insert into user(username) values (‘douglas’)”) @GetGeneratedKeys public long createUser();

and then get the long returned from the DAO