Re: Proposal: Custom superclasses of ObjEntities

From: Andrus Adamchik (andru..bjectstyle.org)
Date: Tue Nov 05 2002 - 18:50:41 EST

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    Craig Miskell writes:

    > Would anyone have any objections to me adding a way of specifying a
    > custom superclass per ObjEntity (defaulting to CayenneDataObject if not
    > specified?) We already have a custom set of templates to get our custom
    > subclass of CayenneDataObject into the mix, but we have a smaller subset
    > of classes that need to be subclasses of a further subclass of our
    > custom object. We could have two templates, generate all the classes
    > and then merge them together, but that's a bit clunky.
    >
    > Changes:
    > Add parentClassName to ObjEntity (default to
    > org.objectstyle.cayenne.CayenneDataObject)
    > Add attribute to obj-entity in the xml reading/writing (no value in the
    > default case)
    > Modify modeller to display it.
    > Modify the class generation code and templates to use it.
    >
    > Craig
     

    I think this is OK. What do we want to call the new property of ObjEntity?

    I suggest simply "superclassName", since we have "className" already.

    Andrus

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