Personally I don't think the patch sucks, I just think that having TO patch anything sucks especially when this seems like core functionality that ought to be available.
I too would be happy to help in any way I can to get something that would meet this need and be included in the Hibernate distribution rather than requiring continual patching of new versions. Another 2 cents. --- Chris Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, as the author of said sucky patch, I figure I > ought to throw in my .02. > > This isn't a small issue. The Criteria API is > completely unusable for many real world scenarios > without this functionality. Regardless of how bad > people feel my patch "sucks" it seems like a lot > people need this. The approach of holding this back > because we might someday think of something better > seems completely nonsensical. There seems to be some > lipservice to Hibernate being developed with an agile > process, but decisions like this smack of the worst > kind of analyis paralysis. I don't even see anything > around projection or aggregation (these were the > features that would make my count method superfluous, > I thought) in the 2.2 plan. The clear amount of user > interest in a count() function certainly would seem to > merit prioritizing it separately to me. > > Incidentally, as I've expressed ad nauseum, I'd be > more than happy to attempt to improve my patch if I > had criticism that was more constructive than "It > sucks". Part of the power of open source, in my mind, > is when people that use the product can contribute in > useful and constructive ways. This seems to not be > possible at this point on this project, which is sad > and frustrating. > > I'd welcome an open, constructive discussion on how > the Criteria API could be improved to support this > vital functionality in a reasonable timeframe. I'd be > happy to help with this effort in any way possible. > > --Chris __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Get better spam protection with Yahoo! Mail. http://antispam.yahoo.com/tools ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net is sponsored by: Speed Start Your Linux Apps Now. Build and deploy apps & Web services for Linux with a free DVD software kit from IBM. Click Now! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1356&alloc_id=3438&op=click _______________________________________________ hibernate-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hibernate-devel
