So, I was playing around a bit with the "is abstract" flag on abstract
entities.
I confess that it didn't quite work the way I thought it would.
For one, the superclass was abstract, but not the subclass. I went
ahead and made the subclass abstract. Which raises the second issue.
I have two obj entities entities extending the "abstract" superclass,
using a single discriminator column. I went to query the base class
(ala: select e from Entry e), and the query failed, due to the
inability to instantiate an instance of Entry. Evidently, cayenne is
trying to instantiate all of the subclasses instances as instances of
the superclass. Shouldn't cayenne be instantiating the subclasses?
Put another way, what is the technical reason that cayenne /isn't/
instantiating the subclasses as instances of the subclasses? Given the
potential of polymorphism, it seems like instantiating as the
superclass, even if the superclass is concrete, is incorrect behavior?
Just trying to clarify, here. I'll be digging through the code to try
to understand the specifics of how cayenne handles inheritance, but,
any pointers appreciated.
Robert
