Hi Kevin,
Well, actually Cayenne already supports synchronization with an
existing schema (you can select an existing DataMap, and then do
"reverse engineer", and Cayenne will update this DataMap, instead of
creating a new one). Unfortunately the current implementation is a can
of worms. We need a much cleaner "merge" support in the future.
Andrus
On Sep 7, 2004, at 8:13 AM, Kevin J. Menard, Jr. wrote:
> Hello Andrus,
>
> Tuesday, September 7, 2004, 1:00:09 AM, you wrote:
>
>
> AA> If this is just such simple change, I would manually add a column
> to
> AA> DB, and then manually add a corresponding attribute to DbEntity in
> AA> CayenneModeler (and then you can "Sync ObjEntity with DbEntity).
>
> Ok. That's what I was figuring. But what should one do in a not so
> trivial case? I know enough forethought should go in at the
> beginning, but people make mistakes while others change their minds
> (user requirements). Hopefully this all happens during the dev stage,
> so you're not impacting a production system, but even on a dev system,
> it would be a pain in the neck to lose all that data.
>
> Steve's DBUnit ant solution looks nice, but it might be nice for data
> modeler to have an import/export dump facility.
>
> AA> Reverse-engineering may be an overkill, as you may loose some of
> the
> AA> model customizations (if you made any), such as flattened
> relationships
> AA> or non-default names.
>
> Ahh, I hadn't considered this. I'll make sure not to do that then.
> My intention with the reverse engineering was to make sure that what I
> did in data modeler definitely matched against the db (i.e., that I
> didn't miss a step).
>
> --
> Best regards,
> Kevin mailto:nirvdru..egativetwenty.net
>
>
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.0.0 : Tue Sep 07 2004 - 10:17:32 EDT