+1 sounds very useful to simplify the data model here and there
> Am 27.11.2019 um 13:06 schrieb Michael Gentry <blackn...@gmail.com>:
>
> I just happened across an article on Hibernate which talks about lazy
> attributes. (A recent addition, I think.) This essentially allows you to
> flag an attribute/column as lazy and it'll be excluded from the original
> SELECT query, but if you call the getter it will then fetch it in. This is
> convenient for BLOB-type data that might happen to be in a main table with
> other attributes (such as MIME types, file sizes, file names, etc).
>
> Thoughts on maybe adding this feature to Cayenne? I can imagine there'd be
> a "Lazy" column in Cayenne Modeler for the attributes to control/identify
> them.
>
> Thanks,
>
> mrg