Making a getStatusName() and even a setStatusName() is fine for
conveniently getting the status name (and not needing a local
statusName instance variable), but if you need to use statusName in a
query, that won't do what you want -- you still need to specify the
relationships. Also, you had mentioned sorting. What exactly do you
need? There are various ways of sorting things in Cayenne.
/dev/mrg
On 12/20/06, Aristedes Maniatis <ar..sh.com.au> wrote:
>
> On 21/12/2006, at 11:34 AM, Terry Jeske wrote:
>
> > I have a project object as with the following variables:
> >
> > Project.java
> > ---------------------------------
> > int id
> > String projectName
> > String statusName
> >
> > Hibernate does not support this, and to get around it I have had to
> > create a
> > view that hibernate pulls from. We like having the status_table
> > look-up
> > because it makes it easy to return sorted lists of projects, while
> > giving us
> > the freedom to change status text.
>
>
> Put this in Project.java if you want a convenience method for this
> purpose.
>
> public String getStatusName() {
> return getStatus().getName();
> }
>
>
> Ari Maniatis
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