Chandan, That should work nicely in general. We happen to have some JPA which we did not generate (and would rather not) but after reviewing and recalling what you have pointed out, I believe this is best.
Thank you, Carl On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 7:27 AM, Chandan V.A (JIRA) <j...@apache.org> wrote: > > [ > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OLINGO-185?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=13918008#comment-13918008] > > Chandan V.A commented on OLINGO-185: > ------------------------------------ > > Hi Carl, > I would like to go with the annotation "@Lob" as specified in the JPA > specification for generating Large and Binary object rather than going with > the data type "Clob.class". > > The idea is as follows. > > A) Look for the annotation "@Lob" on the JPA entity property. > B) If the annotation is present and the data type for the JPA entity > property is a string or character or character array type then keep it as > Edm.string type ELSE > C) if the annotation is present and the data type for the JPA entity > property is NOT a string or character or character array type then keep it > as Edm.binary. DONT check for any specific data type like Clob.class as it > might tie up the OData 2 JPA processor to a specific implementation of JPA > specification. > D) if a JPA entity property has the data type as Clob.class but is not > annotated with "@Lob" then that property will be ignored by OData 2 JPA > processor. > > Can you please comment on this proposal. > > Regards > Chandan > > > support for Clob > > ---------------- > > > > Key: OLINGO-185 > > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OLINGO-185 > > Project: Olingo > > Issue Type: New Feature > > Components: odata2-jpa > > Affects Versions: V2 1.2.0 > > Reporter: Carl J. Mosca > > Priority: Blocker > > Labels: blob, clob, jpa > > Attachments: > org.apache.olingo.odata2.jpa.processor.core.access.model.JPATypeConverter.java.diff > > > > > > support for Clob (other BLOB types?) We have successfully processed > these as String type > > > > -- > This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA > (v6.2#6252) > -- Carl J. Mosca
