Hi
I'm going to add support for horizontal inheritance to cayenne. I've
already added functionality for an entity to be abstract (https://issues.apache.org/cayenne/browse/CAY-794
), now the second part.
Current implementation of inheritance allows only one of two
parameters set: "inheritance" or "table/view"
If inheritance is selected the ObjEntity does not have any own
DbEntity or DbAttributes, it gets them only from the parent ObjEntity.
(although it has all the ObjAttributes defined in model)
Table/view is a simple approach where the ObjEntity gets its
attributes from its definition in model, there is no parent ObjEntity.
For horizontal inheritance ObjEnity.getAttributes() should return both
the attributes defined in model as well as from parent ObjEntity. Yet
having both parameters accepted at the same time might now do it well
enough, therefore I would like to propose adding yet another parameter
to the model: "inheritance db relationship". On database level the
horizontal inheritance is nothing more than a one-to-one relationship
between two tables, and reflecting this in the model will be required
to route the queries and inserts correctly.
Did I miss something ? Is that the right approach ?
Marcin
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