After switching over to using the DbGenerator and DbMerger from flat SQL files, I see this to be of fairly major importance. Since the database doesn't know what default values should be, I'm finding myself reworking a fair amount of code to add these where it wouldn't otherwise be necessary.
For something as cool and impressive as the DbGenerator is, I think it deserves a priority higher than "someday" :) -----Original Message----- From: Aristedes Maniatis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2008 8:00 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Handling of database NULL - default value column to modeler? On 21/08/2008, at 3:54 AM, Andrus Adamchik wrote: > If we are to bring this to Cayenne as a feature, I am very much in > favor of an generic solution with the ability to define arbitrary > metadata in the model. It has been mentioned in this thread already > that this is a very popular request, and as usual my reply is > "someday" :-/ Interesting. I just added a note to https://issues.apache.org/cayenne/browse/CAY-400 in case we want to include this idea as part of that task. It really isn't that hard to implement: just a question of creating the GUI that works for different types of data (eg. compare long documentation data to short properties). Ari --------------------------> ish http://www.ish.com.au Level 1, 30 Wilson Street Newtown 2042 Australia phone +61 2 9550 5001 fax +61 2 9550 4001 GPG fingerprint CBFB 84B4 738D 4E87 5E5C 5EFA EF6A 7D2E 3E49 102A
