On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 7:22 AM, Tibor Mlynarik <[email protected]> wrote:
> Can somebody please explain to me why are *DTOs ( value composites > that mirrros entities) necessary > and why only values can be serialized into JSON and entities not ? Uhhhh.... The history is probably forgotten. If we instead look forward, in 2.0 I expect that entities can be turned into Values with a simple toValue() method, since Rickard fixed that Values can now contain (Many)Associations. And since inheritence from Composite meta types are not going to be necessary in 2.0, I expect something like this to work; Person pEntity = uow.get( Person.class, "niclas" ); Person pValue = pEntity.toValue(); OR, since toJSON() is probably going into Module.toJSON( Object value ), or something like that (since Values no longer need to inherit ValueComposite), perhaps it will look like; Person pEntity = uow.get( Person.class, "niclas" ); Person pValue = module.toValue( pEntity); Cheers -- Niclas Hedhman, Software Developer http://www.qi4j.org - New Energy for Java I live here; http://tinyurl.com/3xugrbk I work here; http://tinyurl.com/6a2pl4j I relax here; http://tinyurl.com/2cgsug _______________________________________________ qi4j-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ops4j.org/mailman/listinfo/qi4j-dev
