querydsl transformer group by count

Question

I am stuck trying to get a query (QueryDSL) to work that gives me a count of distinct categories. For example, what I am trying to achieve:

categoryA -> 10 entries
categoryB -> 20 entries

This is what i have so far:

query().from(application)
            .transform(groupBy(application.category).as(list(application)));

However, this gives me for each category a list of all whole entries, I just want to get a count of this.

I tried messing around with count() but no luck.

Anybody know how to do this?

Answer 1

transform combined groupBy is meant to construct tree structures out of flat result sets. What you need can be easier expressed as

query.from(application)
     .groupBy(application.category)
     .list(application.category, application.category.count())

Answer 2

Note that as of Querydsl 4.x, the accepted answer by Timo Westkämper is no longer valid. Breaking changes in Querydsl 4.0 have removed the query.list() method.

A solution working with Querydsl 4.0+ would now be:

query.from(application)
     .groupBy(application.category)
     .select(application.category, application.category.count())
     .fetch();