Thanks Jeroen, seems simple enough :)
On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 9:28 PM, Jeroen van der Wal <[email protected]>
wrote:
> You could also hide the property and create a separate getter for display
> purposes only:
>
> private MyProperty myProperty;
>
> @Hidden
> public MyProperty getMyProperty() {...}
>
> public void setMyProperty(...) {...}
>
> public String getMyPropertyName() {
> getMyProperty.getName();
> }
>
> On 29 July 2015 at 13:18, Stephen Cameron <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 6:38 PM, Dan Haywood <
> [email protected]
> > >
> > wrote:
> >
> > > You are right, they will be displayed as links; there's no way to
> disable
> > > it currently.
> > >
> > > We could add a bit of metadata perhaps for this, eg
> > > @DomainObjectLayout(suppressLink=true) or similar.
> > >
> > > Please raise a ticket.
> > >
> >
> > OK https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ISIS-1180
> >
> > >
> > > Thx
> > > Dan
> > >
> > > PS: these entities wouldn't be value types, rather regular entities.
> But
> > > you are right... what we really want is full-class support for value
> > types.
> > > We're just not there yet...
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> > >
> > >
> > > On 29 July 2015 at 09:34, Stephen Cameron <[email protected]>
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > > > Thanks, but surely such object properties always end up being
> displayed
> > > as
> > > > links? Clicking on the link to go to such an object page is
> > meaningless,
> > > as
> > > > it only has one name property, that was displayed in the link. Can I
> > > > disable that default behaviour for value types?
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 5:47 PM, Dan Haywood <
> > > [email protected]
> > > > >
> > > > wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > On 29 July 2015 at 08:08, Stephen Cameron <
> > [email protected]>
> > > > > wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > > Hi,
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I want to do have some properties that are essentially String
> > types,
> > > > but
> > > > > > which have a limited range of values (code-lists or restricted
> > > > > > vocabularies). I want to allow these lists to be administered
> > > > centrally,
> > > > > so
> > > > > > to add them to a single Administration menu item for admin users.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > For most users these codes should appears as lists of strings not
> > as
> > > > > > objects, but making them objects seems to be the logical OO way
> to
> > > deal
> > > > > > with them in Isis. So they are basically objects with one 'name'
> > > > property
> > > > > > (and maybe an id added by datanucleus). All users need to see is
> > the
> > > > name
> > > > > > property, no icon is needed.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Also, if I make them objects I also will get referencial
> integrity
> > > > > > constraints applied in the database.
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > +1, do it this way. That way they can also hold behaviour in the
> > > future.
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > > I wonder there is a simple recipe for this?
> > > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > No magic recipe for the domain entities... basically copy-n-paste
> the
> > > > > SimpleObject that's in our archetype as many times as needed, and
> > tweak
> > > > as
> > > > > required.
> > > > >
> > > > > If you want to use the code as the primary key, then use DN
> > application
> > > > > identity
> > > > >
> > > > > @javax.jdo.annotations.PersistenceCapable(
> > > > > identityType=IdentityType.APPLICATION,
> > > > > schema = "simple",
> > > > > table = "SimpleObject"
> > > > > )
> > > > >
> > > > > and add @PrimaryKey to the "name" property. Also add @Title to
> that
> > > > 'name'
> > > > > property (it is in SimpleObject already).
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > You would probably want to remove the version column, ie remove:
> > > > >
> > > > > @javax.jdo.annotations.Version(
> > > > > strategy=VersionStrategy.VERSION_NUMBER,
> > > > > column="version")
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > In addition, if you annotate the class as "bounded"
> > > > > (@DomainObject(bounded=true)) then you are telling the framework
> that
> > > > > there's a limited - ie bounded - set of instances, and so it will
> > > display
> > > > > all instances in a drop-down for you.
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > HTH
> > > > > Dan
> > > > >
> > > >
> > >
> >
>
