Re: Entity Modeler: change plist format?

From: David Avendasora (webobject..vendasora.com)
Date: Mon Jan 28 2008 - 11:33:14 EST

  • Next message: Mike Schrag: "Re: Entity Modeler: change plist format?"

    Ah. Version Control System. Yeah, gotta get me one of those. :)

    Dave

    On Jan 28, 2008, at 10:24 AM, Mike Schrag wrote:

    > No, there's no conversion in the manual sense, but there's
    > conversion in the workflow sense. If you look at your version
    > control system, going from EOModeler to Entity Modeler makes it
    > appear that every line of your model files changed. This patch
    > makes that a much smoother process when you convert your workflow
    > over to Entity Modeler.
    >
    > ms
    >
    > On Jan 28, 2008, at 9:40 AM, Ken Anderson wrote:
    >
    >> You must be using an EntityModeler after the switch back to single
    >> line plist format.
    >>
    >> On Jan 28, 2008, at 9:28 AM, David Avendasora wrote:
    >>
    >>> Conversion? Was my model just too simple, or did I miss
    >>> something, because when I switched from EOModeler to Entity
    >>> Modeler, I didn't "convert" anything, it just worked.
    >>>
    >>> Dave
    >>>
    >>> On Jan 27, 2008, at 7:50 PM, Ken Anderson wrote:
    >>>
    >>>> Personally, while the diffing is incredibly useful, I was very
    >>>> pleased to see it using the single line format for now, since it
    >>>> was much less traumatic for my conversion...
    >>>>
    >>>> On Jan 27, 2008, at 12:18 PM, Mike Schrag wrote:
    >>>>
    >>>>>> And what was written as:
    >>>>>>
    >>>>>>> primaryKeyAttributes = (
    >>>>>>> eoid
    >>>>>>> );
    >>>>>>
    >>>>>> is now being written as:
    >>>>>>
    >>>>>>> primaryKeyAttributes = (eoid);
    >>>>>>
    >>>>>> I feel this is a change to the worse, as the previous format
    >>>>>> allowed for easy diffing. So, before committing all those
    >>>>>> changes, I thought I'd ask. :-)
    >>>>> This "new" format is actually now consistent with EOModeler's
    >>>>> format. This patch was from the iTunes folks and it basically
    >>>>> makes it much less traumatic to convert from EOModeler to
    >>>>> Entity Modeler because it won't completely change your model
    >>>>> files when you switch. I agree it makes it a little harder to
    >>>>> diff, but Eclipse should highlight subsections of the line that
    >>>>> are different, so you should still be able to see the diffs
    >>>>> without too much pain.
    >>>>>
    >>>>> ms
    >>>>>
    >>>>
    >>>>
    >>>>
    >>>
    >>
    >
    >
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