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How to get result set by checking a specific element in an aggregated array using JOOQ?

I want to filter results by a specific value in the aggregated array in the query.
Here is a little description of the problem.
Section belongs to the garden. Garden belongs to District and District belongs to the province.
Users have multiple sections. Those sections belong to their gardens and they are to their Districts and them to Province.
I want to get user ids that have value 2 in district array.
I tried to use any operator but it doesn't work properly. (syntax error)
Any help would be appreciated.
ps: This is possible writing using plain SQL
rs = dslContext.select(
field("user_id"),
field("gardens_array"),
field("province_array"),
field("district_array"))
.from(table(select(
arrayAggDistinct(field("garden")).as("gardens_array"),
arrayAggDistinct(field("province")).as("province_array"),
arrayAggDistinct(field("distict")).as("district_array"))
.from(table("lst.user"))
.leftJoin(table(select(
field("section.user_id").as("user_id"),
field("garden.garden").as("garden"),
field("garden.province").as("province"),
field("garden.distict").as("distict"))
.from(table("lst.section"))
.leftJoin("lst.garden")
.on(field("section.garden").eq(field("garden.garden")))
.leftJoin("lst.district")
.on(field("district.district").eq(field("garden.district")))).as("lo"))
.on(field("user.user_id").eq(field("lo.user_id")))
.groupBy(field("user.user_id"))).as("joined_table"))
.where(val(2).equal(DSL.any("district_array"))
.fetch()
.intoResultSet();

Your code is calling DSL.any(T...), which corresponds to the expression any(?) in PostgreSQL, where the bind value is a String[] in your case. But you don't want "district_array" to be a bind value, you want it to be a column reference. So, either, you assign your arrayAggDistinct() expression to a local variable and reuse that, or you re-use your field("district_array") expression or replicate it:
val(2).equal(DSL.any(field("district_array", Integer[].class)))
Notice that it's usually a good idea to be explicit about data types (e.g. Integer[].class) when working with the plain SQL templating API, or even better, use the code generator.

How to get list of nationalities in Java

Does someone know a way to retrieve a list of nationalities in Java ? Few precisions : I do not need a list of countries but a list of nationalities. I do not need a list of languages, but a list of nationalities. I've tried to twist Locale API, without result.
And icing on the cake, I need to display nationalities in a specific languages.For example, with Brazil, I need to display a 'brazilian' in english, a 'brésilien' in french and a 'brasilero' in spanish.
Does someone have an idea ?

Java doesn't contain a list of nationalities as far as I'm aware. The Locale class just gives a list of regions as stated in the javadoc. It would be helpful in your situation, but not for a lot.
From what i gather, you're going to have to create your own list of nationalities, and the name of the nationality in each language - not too hard.
To do the language part, internationalization will be helpful. It allows you to get the users region and set a language depending on where the user is from. It also allows formatting of numbers, text and dates.
Look at this stack overflow answer specifically for how to get the names of the nationalities in different languages. Basically, you create a different file for each language and inside the file are key-value pares. So the English file will look a bit like this:
nationality.english = English
nationality.german = German
nationality.russian = Russian
and the German file will be similar to:
nationality.english = Englisch
nationality.german = Deutsche
nationality.russian = Russisch
then depending on what language you want the nationalities displayed in, you just get the text from the language file using the key (e.g. nationality.russian).
To do the nationality part, you can create an enum that contains all the nationalities. For example:
public enum Nationalities{
ENGLISH,
GERMAN;
//And so on
}
See here if you are new to java enums.
You will probably want to add a bit more information in the enum class, such as the county and what the key for the nationality name is.
To pull it all together, you get the region of the user and set the language file for the region. Then for each listed nationality, you get the name of it from the language file.

OpenText LiveLink Search Metadata

I'd like to use the Java CWS web service to perform searches against Metadata stored in categories.
When I execute the getFieldInfo method the searchable fields in my categories are not listed. I'm trying to figure out the structure of the query expression for searching this info.
Any help greatly appreciated.

In case anyone comes across this, the attributes for categories are not returned by the getFieldInfo method. They have special names in the format of:
attr_xxxxx_yyy, where xxxxx is the id of the category and yyy is a sequential number, incremented for each attribute in the category.

How to predict correct country name for user provided country name?

I am planning to do some data tuning on my data.
Situation-I have a data which has a field country. It contains user input country names( It might contain spelling mistakes or different country names for same country like US/U.S.A/United States for USA). I have a list of correct country names.
What I want- To predict which closest country it is referring to. For example- If U.S. is given then it will change to USA(correct country name in our list).
Is there any way I can do it using Java or opennlp or any other method?

You can use Getty API . It will give you abbreviations of country name. Just play on this API.
OR
You can also use Levenshtein Distance to get most closest country name.
Try this out. Will help you.

You can try Google's auto complete location api to your text box or select.
if you will use this api then you will get google like auto complete intellisence while typing.
visit link

If you have the city or state information that is sanitized then you could do a look up of the country.
You could also define aliases in your list of country names and point the aliases to the preferred notation. For example, US, United States, USA all are aliases of U.S.A. You could make the program to append to alias database so that it improves as it is being used. You might have do multiple passes over the data and also certain amount of manual work is involved.

Algorithm to generate column prefix patterns

I am wondering in how to develop a dynamic way to generate column prefix patterns. The main idea is to standardize corporation patterns while defining column names. For example:
If I have to create a column that is a date, so the prefix will be DT_*column_name*;
If it is a name column, so it will be NM_*column_name*;
But if you don't have a well defined pattern, you can suggest a name that need to be approved.
Has anyone ever thought about something like this?
Thank you in advance
**EDIT**
Sorry, I think I didn't explained it enough. It's not exactly for handling type prefixes, but specific business/corporation names. For example (again):
Column customer should be prefixed with CSTM_
Column digit should be prefixed with DIGT_
Column franchising should be prefixed with FRCH_

Dont think is a good idea.
Consider your organization use different DBs like oracle and mysql with different data types.
The column name should be use to describe the column. You alredy have a type of the column defined.
Another drawback is if you want your application to be supported by multipe database engines. Are you going to change the schema ?