Hi Darren, I just now remembered your e-mail below that you've sent to the user group around a month ago, and the challenges you've outlined that might be ahead of us.
Have you further delved into this issue? Did you discover anything new? Best Lukas 2014-04-25 16:07 GMT+02:00 Darren S <[email protected]>: > I've created a platform for IaaS (you can see it at http://cattle.io) > that's heavily based on jooq. It's a very flexible platform intended to be > extended and repackaged for other purposes. I'm running into a general > problem with code generation in jooq though. > > People who extend the platform are free to add new DB tables to the > schemas. The platform ships with a base schema and the code generated for > the base schema. If somebody adds a new table, I'd really like them to be > able to just generate the code for the new table they added. That only > works if the new table doesn't reference any table in the base schema. > What I'm having to do now is if somebody adds a new table, they have to > regenerate the code for the entire schema and then package the schema jar > first in the classpath. > > Any ideas on how to improve this? It ends up being quite fragile because > if a change is made in the base schema and the person extending the > platform doesn't regenerate the overwritten schema, bad bad things happen > at runtime. > > It seems like this would be a major change to the codegen stuff to support > this. I was trying to at least come up with a fail fast approach that if > somebody forgot to regenerate the code it would detect it at runtime and > fail. One thing that makes that difficult is that for sane upgrades it's > required that old code can always run against a newer schema. So a simple > version stamp isn't possible. > > Darren > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "jOOQ User Group" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "jOOQ User Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
