Hi guys,
Petite Abeille speaking :-)
Cayenne is also on my "to do" list so I might as well just jump in.
I haven't look at it much so far, but the time is near.
On Monday, September 2, 2002, at 06:46 , Andrus wrote:
>> - am I right that there is currently no validation suport (as in
>> validateXForY) or did I just overlook something in the APIs?
>
> You are right. It is not there. We have no specific plans for it yet,
> so there is lots of room for discussion.
I have to implement some validation for my own needs. I was thinking to
basically clone NSValidation. If you don't see any major flow with that
mechanism I can contribute it to Cayenne.
> Using string entity names adds another level of abstraction. For
> instance you can have the same class mapped to more than one entity.
> This is not necessarily a good thing of course. So I tend to think that
> your suggestion may be the way to go.
I'm with Holger on this one: be as explicit as possible.
> Besides mapping directly to class as opposed to abstract string name
> opens the possibility of mapping arbitrary classes, not inheriting from
> CayenneDataObject - something that is really important.
Here we are talking :-)
> I totally agree. Originally we did not implement any notifications,
> delegates and such, because the flow of events in the access layer was
> changing all the time. Now the overall flow seems to be rather stable,
> and it is the right time to start designing such things. I am not ready
> to suggest anything at the moment, but we need to start this work.
I built a little NSNotificationCenter clone if you guys are interested.
It does distributed notification as well.
Cheers,
PA.
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