In reference to making typesafe queries, I think the easiest way to do that is
to have the subclass template generate typesafe helper methods, something like
this:
@SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
public static List<User> fetchUserList(ObjectContext context, Query query) {
return (List<User>) context.performQuery(query);
}
My template actually generates several variations of this helper method with
various parameters. It be tedious to make these by hand for each class, but
it's easy when the code is generated by a template.
Joe
On Sep 15, 2011, at 5:31 PM, Aristedes Maniatis wrote:
> Hello Hugi
>
> Welcome to Cayenne. The work you have done is extremely welcome and has been
> discussed before:
>
> http://markmail.org/thread/nnnj2ezvpzamphdn
>
> It just is that no-one has had the time to work on it. This syntax is also
> very similar to the way Ruby Rails queries are constructed: very clean and
> easy to read.
>
> I encourage you to do a couple of things to follow this through and see if we
> can get this approach into Cayenne:
>
> 1. Take this over to the dev list (I'm copying that list in now)
> 2. Put your code somewhere. Jira is a very good option (no matter how basic
> the code is) because you will agree to a license agreement releasing the code
> under the ASL which makes it possible for us to include your code in Cayenne.
> You could also use something like gist (github.com) to put code in a more
> visible place for now, but ultimately it will need to come back through Jira.
>
> Again, welcome. Getting type safety into object keys has always been a goal
> here.
>
> Ari
>
>
> On 16/09/11 4:29 AM, Hugi Thordarson wrote:
>> Hi all.
>>
>> Cayenne beginner here. I come from an EOF/WebObjects background, so when I
>> started using Cayenne (yesterday) I kinda missed the type safety and
>> conciseness of using Mike Schrag's ERXKeys when constructing qualifiers and
>> Orderings.
>>
>> So me and another EOF guy (@atlipall) sat down today and
>> recreated/reverse-engineered some of Mike's work to be usable with Cayenne.
>> We're sharing this early, hoping it might be useful for someone else—and
>> since we're total beginners and don't know much about Cayenne yet, comments
>> are appreciated. (Perhaps we're even implementing pre-existing
>> functionality; we just don't know :).
>>
>> Anyway, by using the two attached classes and superclass template, you can
>> write type safe code such as:
>>
>> List<User> users = User.fetch( dataContext, User.FIRSTNAME.like( "joe%"
>> ).and( User.AGE.between( 20, 30 ), User.FIRSTNAME.asc().then(
>> User.LASTNAME.asc() ) );
>>
>> (this would fetch all users named "joe"-something, aged betweeen 20 and 30,
>> and order the list by first name, then last name.
>>
>> We also added some convenience methods to the superclass template. These are:
>>
>> fetchAll( ObjectContext );
>> fetchAll( ObjectContext, List<Ordering> );
>> fetch( ObjectContext, Expression );
>> fetch( ObjectContext, Expression, List<Ordering> );
>> fetchOne( ObjectContext, Expression );
>> create{relationship_name}Relationship();
>> delete{relationship_name}Relationship();
>>
>> That's all for now.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> - hugi
>>
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