Hello Hugi
Welcome to Cayenne. The work you have done is extremely welcome and has been
discussed before:
http://markmail.org/thread/nnnj2ezvpzamphdn
It just is that no-one has had the time to work on it. This syntax is also very
similar to the way Ruby Rails queries are constructed: very clean and easy to
read.
I encourage you to do a couple of things to follow this through and see if we
can get this approach into Cayenne:
1. Take this over to the dev list (I'm copying that list in now)
2. Put your code somewhere. Jira is a very good option (no matter how basic the
code is) because you will agree to a license agreement releasing the code under
the ASL which makes it possible for us to include your code in Cayenne. You
could also use something like gist (github.com) to put code in a more visible
place for now, but ultimately it will need to come back through Jira.
Again, welcome. Getting type safety into object keys has always been a goal
here.
Ari
On 16/09/11 4:29 AM, Hugi Thordarson wrote:
Hi all.
Cayenne beginner here. I come from an EOF/WebObjects background, so when I
started using Cayenne (yesterday) I kinda missed the type safety and
conciseness of using Mike Schrag's ERXKeys when constructing qualifiers and
Orderings.
So me and another EOF guy (@atlipall) sat down today and
recreated/reverse-engineered some of Mike's work to be usable with Cayenne.
We're sharing this early, hoping it might be useful for someone else—and since
we're total beginners and don't know much about Cayenne yet, comments are
appreciated. (Perhaps we're even implementing pre-existing functionality; we
just don't know :).
Anyway, by using the two attached classes and superclass template, you can
write type safe code such as:
List<User> users = User.fetch( dataContext, User.FIRSTNAME.like( "joe%" ).and(
User.AGE.between( 20, 30 ), User.FIRSTNAME.asc().then( User.LASTNAME.asc() ) );
(this would fetch all users named "joe"-something, aged betweeen 20 and 30, and
order the list by first name, then last name.
We also added some convenience methods to the superclass template. These are:
fetchAll( ObjectContext );
fetchAll( ObjectContext, List<Ordering> );
fetch( ObjectContext, Expression );
fetch( ObjectContext, Expression, List<Ordering> );
fetchOne( ObjectContext, Expression );
create{relationship_name}Relationship();
delete{relationship_name}Relationship();
That's all for now.
Cheers,
- hugi
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