Re: How Cayenne works ??

From: shaun (wojing..astmail.com.au)
Date: Mon Aug 30 2004 - 19:56:14 EDT

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    Hi,

    I think I saw a tapestry example in the examples directory.
    regards
    -
    shaun

    On Tue, 31 Aug 2004 08:58:59 +1000, "lsteele" <lsteel..inet.net.au>
    said:
    > This is a bit of a newbie question but I have done lots of reading in
    > the docs and cannot really come up with an answer.
    >
    > I am currently converting an early development tapestry app over to use
    > cayenne and so far I like what I see. Eventually (after submitting it
    > as a uni project) I will open the code so it might be useful for others.
    >
    > I seem to be having trouble visualising how Cayenne brings back a group
    > of objects from a query or how the when it brings back a group of
    > objects linkages are maintained between the objects.
    >
    > The problem I need to pass an object to the am running into is that the
    > contrib:Table. I pass a single object and then assign
    > get methods to the coloumns in the table. In SQL I just a create a new
    > object and pass this.
    >
    > What is the best way to do something like this in Cayenne. ??
    >
    > I have used the modeller to set up my objects similarly to the examples
    > that I see in the docs .. but this still only brings back the single
    > object.
    >
    > Is there a way to do a query on an object with links to other objects
    > and bring back a collection of single objects that contrains data from
    > that query ?
    >
    > Are there any more complex examples for doing things like this ?? Has
    > anyone seen examples for doing something like this in Tapestry ??
    >
    > Thanks,
    >
    > Lindsay
    >



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