-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Rickard Öberg schrieb: > Philipp Meier wrote: >> I'm currently digging through the qi4j code base and I am familiarizing >> myself with the entity api. Is there any way to extend the entity stuff >> to enable the use of "dynamic properties" i.e. properties that are not >> declared at compile time but at runtime. I wonder wether a Map of >> List<Propert> or like that will do. > > The EntityStore SPI is created so that types of objects can be fairly > dynamic, and even created on the fly. However, Entity composites have > compile-time definitions of what properties they have. So what > properties an Entity has cannot change in runtime.
Hmm, does the EntityStore rely on the fact that entity type cannot change at runtime? > > You can certainly let an Entity have a Property<Map<String,String>> > though, but like Niclas said, this will not be indexable/queryable. > > What is the actual usecase you want to solve? I wan't to allow the user of the application to define part of the entity model at runtime. - -billy. - -- Philipp Meier Softwareentwicklung und Beratung Baldingerweg 11 http://philipp.meier.name/ 89077 Ulm tel:+49-(0)-175-8004580 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkkbSssACgkQHNGEnKKTsN3tdwCghMAE8kOKXUaOcAh8gjloARR/ K3YAnRTrp93s6HB2ahlYkZ3r79FzZgst =KxYz -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ qi4j-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ops4j.org/mailman/listinfo/qi4j-dev
