Consider that in the most general case a select result in Cayenne 3.0
is List<Object[]>, with each element in the Object[] being either a
persistent object or a scalar value, with a special (most common) case
of List<Object>, where Object is again either a persistent or a scalar.
With this in mind, a "segment" is a descriptor of all elements in the
Object[] at a given index, as seen by the user. Internally a segment
may be quite complex, containing pieces (subsegments?) related to the
main table, joined tables, discriminator columns, etc.
Hope this makes sense.
BTW, I have a local branch where SelectQuery processing is completely
switched to the new "org.apache.cayenne.access.select" package. Not
ready to commit it yet, as there are still many important cases that
don't work (such as prefetching).
Andrus
On Dec 28, 2008, at 4:47 AM, Aristedes Maniatis wrote:
On 28/12/2008, at 11:11 AM, [email protected] wrote:
+++ cayenne/main/trunk/framework/cayenne-jdk1.5-unpublished/src/
main/java/org/apache/cayenne/access/select/
EntitySegmentBuilder.java Sat Dec 27 16:10:59 2008
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
import org.apache.cayenne.query.QueryMetadata;
/**
- * Builder of the leaf entity segment that has no persistent
subclasses or superclasses.
+ * Builder of an entity segment that has no persistent subclasses
or superclasses.
*
* @since 3.0
*/
What does an EntitySegment represent? Is it one database table, such
when inheritance is not used, there is only one EntitySegment per
query, and when it is used there is one EntitySegment per table
which is JOINed in the query?
Ari
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