You could use the IDMigrator on the client to map longs back to Strings, which I bet is infeasible.
So you could also just add more methods to the web service, and/or overwrite the ones that are there, to deal in Strings and then use the IDMigrator internally to translate. On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 2:48 PM, Matthew Bryan <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks Sean, I think I've got the recommendations working! I created a > new DataModel that initializes the IDMigrator and has overrides for > getLongColumn and setLongParameter that pass data through my > IDMigrator. Now the only thing I'm missing is a way to retrieve the > string names of items through the web service. Are there any hooks on > that side where I can make the ID translation? > > Thanks again! > > Matt > > On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 4:33 AM, Sean Owen <[email protected]> wrote: >> Ideally, you initialize by pre-loading all the mappings, by calling >> initialize(). You can also call storeMapping() whenever you know you >> have a new mapping -- on each translation if you like, though that's a >> lot of overhead. >> >> Then you just use it to translate strings to numbers and back. The >> only twist comes when, for example, you have everything in a DB, and >> have to translate from numbers back into strings to make efficient >> queries. Then you have to override some methods in the DataModel >> implementation to deal with this. >> >> It's not one line of code but not terrible, and maybe we can find ways >> to make it easier. >> >> On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 1:10 AM, Matthew Bryan <[email protected]> wrote: >>> I'm having trouble setting up an IDMigrator. I start to write a >>> DataModel class with the overrides that do the translation through an >>> IDMigrator...but that technique doesn't provide a straightforward path >>> for the initialization of IDMigrator....unless I'm reading the db or >>> file natively before it's abstracted in the interface. Is this how >>> folks are doing it or am I missing something? Is there any sample code >>> for an IDMigrator implementation? Thanks for the help....this is a >>> great list for an exciting tool. >>> >>> Matt >>> >> >
