> 1. Typesafe queries for JDOQL
> The DN preprocessor only seems to process classes that have
> annotations. Is this the intent? Many JDO classes only have persistent
> metadata in the .jdo xml files, and these classes seem to be skipped.
> Craig's understanding is that the pre-processor should be able to
> process classes even with no annotations at all. The decision as to
> which classes to process should be taken by the processor itself, not
> the javac that invokes it. But this is just intuition.
Whilst an **Annotation**Processor (hint: the name, and its package) could
define the line
@SupportedAnnotationTypes("*")
and hence, in principle, be visited for all classes being compiled, current
application is for the same area of application as JPA Criteria. That is for
classes annotated as persistent (Criteria annotation processors for Hibernate
and OpenJPA both seem to do the same as DataNucleus here - i.e only handle the
specific annotations for the persistence spec in use).
DataNucleus is obviously Apache 2 licensed and open to contributions from
anyone willing to participate (like it and JPOX have been since 2003). To that
end if anyone wanted to provide an annotation processor that did search for
XML files (using the above @SupportedXXX line), parse the XML file, and then
generate the "query" class, then this would be gratefully received :-)
Regards
--
Andy
DataNucleus (http://www.datanucleus.org)
