I'd say CAY-659 itself is a standalone feature, not a duplicate.
However implementation may use the properties mechanism (i.e. make
"comment" a special property). With this approach CAY-659 is a
dependent of CAY-400... or not if we make it a standalone ivar.
Andrus
On Dec 16, 2008, at 12:21 PM, Malcolm Edgar (JIRA) wrote:
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> Malcolm Edgar commented on CAY-400:
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> This issue marks CAY-659 as a duplicate (similar to CAY-56), however
> I think this is different is scope.
>
> Having a comments field in the Modeler for entities, attributes and
> queries is a very useful feature for communicating a schemas local
> design to other team members. Generally we all write comments in our
> code, it would be nice to be able to do the same thing in the
> Modeler. I don't think this is the same a more generic name/value
> pair concept which is used for some yet to be defined purpose.
>
> An example of what I wanted to see in the Modeler is:
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> http://click.sourceforge.net/click-maven-bundle/cayenne-1.2.2.b.zip
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> The reason I am raising this again, is after reviewing the Cayenne
> 3.0 M5 release which is pretty awesome, adding comments is a pretty
> simple change to the Modeler UI which adds a lot of value in
> development teams
>
> regards Malcolm Edgar
>
>> Support for user properties of DataMap objects.
>> -----------------------------------------------
>>
>> Key: CAY-400
>> URL: https://issues.apache.org/cayenne/browse/CAY-400
>> Project: Cayenne
>> Issue Type: New Feature
>> Components: Cayenne Core Library, CayenneModeler GUI
>> Affects Versions: 3.0
>> Reporter: Andrus Adamchik
>> Assignee: Ari Maniatis
>> Fix For: Short term future
>>
>>
>> We need to support user defined properties attached to
>> * Entities
>> * Attributes
>> * Relationships
>> (Obj and Db). This feature is similar to JDK 1.5 annotations.
>> Basic support:
>> * allow to enter string key/value pairs in the Modeler and save
>> them in XML.
>> * Just like with JVM annotations implement some logic to load
>> annotations conditionally.
>> Ideas for using this info in Cayenne:
>> * Attach DB comments on reverse-engineer
>> * Use certain keys to generate Javadocs during class generation
>> * Use certain keys to generate JDK 1.5 annotations during class
>> generation.
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