CayUtils? I'm good with Cayenne, too.
Robert
On Nov 24, 2009, at 11/245:53 AM , Andrus Adamchik wrote:
[As suggested in the parent thread, forking a new thread]
On Nov 24, 2009, at 1:41 PM, Robert Zeigler wrote:
I'll second that. I ran into a very similar use case yesterday in a
hibernate project... I was wanting to get at hibernate's version of
ClassDescription, and it took me forever to track down the right
way to do it; once I knew how, it was simple enough, and just a few
lines of code, but I fear the above would cause a new Cayenne user
the same level of frustration I experienced yesterday with
Hibernate. ;)
I wouldn't mind if we add methods for ClassDescriptor lookups to the
DataObjectUtils. BTW PersistentObject defines 'getObjEntity' method.
I'd say we replace that with 'getClassDescriptor' and move it to a
utility class.
While we are at it, maybe rename DataObjectUtils to something more
appropriate and shorter. CayenneUtil? Cayenne? ("Util" is already
taken, and I'd rather it identify the origin of the framework).
I sort of like calling it just "Cayenne" (for the same reasons of
user simplicity), but then it implies this is a central class in the
framework, and has more than just lookup-by-pk or give-me-metadata
methods.
Andrus
