If we are to bring this to Cayenne as a feature, I am very much in
favor of an generic solution with the ability to define arbitrary
metadata in the model. It has been mentioned in this thread already
that this is a very popular request, and as usual my reply is
"someday" :-/
Andrus
On Aug 20, 2008, at 4:34 PM, Øyvind Harboe wrote:
On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 2:44 PM, Andrus Adamchik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
So this is not about syncing with DB defaults?
Nope.
Then I think that's over-engineered. Would it be easier to simply
override
needed getters per entity class and do "return super is null ?
defaultVal :
super", without changing Cayenne core?
That of course gives the user no user interface to
browse through the model to figure out how defaults are handled +
scatters boilerplate code all over the subclasses.
Perhaps there is some other way to achieve this?
The crucial bit is to be able to tabulate handling of default
values. Perhaps
use a custom base class for all the CayenneDataObject subclasses and
override readProperty() to handle null pointers via a lookup...
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