Michael Gentry (Yes, I'm a Contractor) wrote:
> I agree. It's usually not too much trouble to wrap the relationship if
> really needed to sort it -- or just fetch them in the order you need. If
Unfortunatley that breaks the idea of not having to explicitly fetch
relationships.
> the destination is a GUI, I'd argue the GUI should be responsible for
> sorting and not Cayenne. The presentation of data probably shouldn't be
> handled by the model. :-)
No, but a significant number of things are inherently ordered according to
some kind of use case model and not capturing that in the O/R Model is Not
Good. Like I said the more you think about this the more complicated (and
contradictory) things get.
-h
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