Auto load schema on startup
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Key: CAY-1193
URL: https://issues.apache.org/cayenne/browse/CAY-1193
Project: Cayenne
Issue Type: New Feature
Components: Cayenne Core Library, CayenneModeler GUI
Affects Versions: 3.0M5
Reporter: Andrus Adamchik
Assignee: Andrus Adamchik
This feature would allow Cayenne to bootstrap the DB schema on startup if
needed. I can see the following options for schema update:
1. Skip schema update. This is the current behavior.
2. Create if no existing tables are found. This is the most reliable but less
powerful option. It will skip schema creation if at least on eof the tables
modeled in Cayenne already exist in DB. No exceptions will be thrown (maybe
just an INFO log message). This will use DbGenerator.
3. Throw if partial schema detected. This will check for schema changes
compared to the model and throw an exception if differences are found in the
tables mapped in the DataMap (i.e. if there are more tables than mapped in
Cayenne, it will NOT throw). This will use the merge package.
(I wonder if "4. Attempt to merge schema changes" makes any sense at all)
This will have a modeler component - a dropdown at the DataNode level listing
schema generation strategies. It will be saved in the XML as
"schema-update-strategy" attribute for the "node" element.
Runtime component will consist of strategy instantiation, and an intercept of
DB operations run through the DataNode, passing it to an appropriate strategy.
Still undecided whether the strategy should be a DataNode attribute or a
DbAdapter attribute (prolly DataNode).
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