Hi folks,
I guess most of you haven't seen what I'm doing, but I thought I'd ask
for some input via the mailing list since that's The Way It's Done Round
Here. I am working on an Eclipse plugin which allows DB editing via
Cayenne's object model and ROP.
There is a picture at [1] which shows the problem at hand. Using the
Artist - Painting - Gallery DB, when a new Painting is created, its
Gallery needs to be set. It can easily be set to a new Gallery, but I
may want to set it to an existing one, which may not be displayed in the
diagram. More generally, I need a way to set an object in the diagram to
an instance which is already in the DB, but not yet displayed in the
diagram. All the other processes are entirely visual at present, so I'm
reluctant to add dialogs, but...
At the moment I think the best (read 'only practical') way to do it is
via a wizard. The user selects a NamedQuery from the map, sets key/value
parameters, and picks from the results.
I was wondering if anyone had any other ideas, or suggestions that would
improve a process like that.
Cheers,
Marcel
[1] http://www.uow.edu.au/~mgordon/insert.png
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