Hey there 🙂 I wondered what’s the rationale behind not matching the common sql-syntax with the

select

clause. Someone who’s used to sql would expect the dsl to work something like this:

val gamailUsers = Users.select(id, name, email)
  .where { email like "%@gmail.com"}
  .map { ... }

But instead expose uses

slice

to do the projection. And select to do the selection. Why is this? I don’t realy have an opinion, I just want to know what the reason behind this decision was.

It's a historical thing which comes from a very first commits of initial creator of Exposed. I can create an issue to replace that methods. But now there is

selectAll

function, how do you think it should be renamed?

all

? Any suggestions?

That’s a good question. Like I said, I don’t really have an opinior, I was just curious 🙂 but imho

selectAll

is nice actually so I don’t know if it should be renamed

Then it will look like

FooTable.select(FooTable.bar).selectAll()

well that’s weird, I give you that. Maybe not change anything for now 😉