The example Cayenne Modeler 1.2.2.b build works well. You can see the Description fields added to the end of the tables, and below some of the dialogs. This does set a practical limit to the length of the description (~50 characters). I practice I have found it to work well.
I agree in not having them hidden away, as it would defeat the purpose. regards Malcolm Edgar On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 11:35 PM, Aristedes Maniatis <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 16/12/2008, at 10:42 PM, Andrus Adamchik wrote: > >> I'd say CAY-659 itself is a standalone feature, not a duplicate. However >> implementation may use the properties mechanism (i.e. make "comment" a >> special property). With this approach CAY-659 is a dependent of CAY-400... >> or not if we make it a standalone ivar. > > I think that was the idea from last time we discussed this. key/value pairs > which could be attached to attributes, entities, etc. and a special key > "doc" which would have significance in terms of generating javadocs in the > generated code. There is nothing special about that key other than cgen > would read insert its values in the appropriate places. > > Really the only hard part of this is creating a GUI in Cayenne modeler which > allows for adding reasonably long bits of text to attributes, relations, > etc. while not hiding them away in popup windows where you can't easily see > them as you review the model. > > Ari > > > > --------------------------> > ish > http://www.ish.com.au > Level 1, 30 Wilson Street Newtown 2042 Australia > phone +61 2 9550 5001 fax +61 2 9550 4001 > GPG fingerprint CBFB 84B4 738D 4E87 5E5C 5EFA EF6A 7D2E 3E49 102A > > >
