Hey Guys,
I have a question: ( I am running 1.1)
Is there a way (without having to modify the cayenne code myself) to tell the 'reengineer database schema' tool to also generate the keys for the objEntities. I understand from the user guide documentation that you can ake that, i.e: add that PK manually, link it to the dbentity field and then re-generate the classes, but I was wondering whether there was a way for me to avoid doing that for every entity..as it gets painful.....
Is there a reason why you guys do no want to expose that possibility as a flag? I am thinking of a simple AlsoGenerateKeyField textbox kindda thing.
The reason is not only to be able to create new objEntities by setting the Id (in case where the ids are meaningful. I.e: SSN, userLoginId and so on...), but also for querying, and that is what bothers me the most...I would like to be able to say:
String expKey = "101";
Expression qual3 = ExpressionFactory.matchExp("depId",expKey);
SelectQuery query3 = new SelectQuery(Department.class,qual3);
List deps3 = ctxt.performQuery(query3);
...
If the depId field is not present in the object model (i.e: the Department objEntity), there is now way for me to be able to perform such query. (unless maybe using parametrized query I believe...I am not even sure.....or so...but that defies the purpose of the object model abstraction).
Thank you.
Sincerely,
Mehdi Bennani
Software Engineer
FreeBalance Inc.
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