That much is true ... but ...
it would be nice if it was possible to describe
these things in the repository.
I've actualy created a database that holds this additional informations
and a little more like a meaningful names for attributes
and entities, and made a web-Interface using Googles
web-toolkit, so erveryone in our company, that can
login to this Webserver, is able to add such informations.
2006/12/21, Michael Gentry <blacknex..mail.com>:
>
> Making a getStatusName() and even a setStatusName() is fine for
> conveniently getting the status name (and not needing a local
> statusName instance variable), but if you need to use statusName in a
> query, that won't do what you want -- you still need to specify the
> relationships. Also, you had mentioned sorting. What exactly do you
> need? There are various ways of sorting things in Cayenne.
>
> /dev/mrg
>
>
> On 12/20/06, Aristedes Maniatis <ar..sh.com.au> wrote:
> >
> > On 21/12/2006, at 11:34 AM, Terry Jeske wrote:
> >
> > > I have a project object as with the following variables:
> > >
> > > Project.java
> > > ---------------------------------
> > > int id
> > > String projectName
> > > String statusName
> > >
> > > Hibernate does not support this, and to get around it I have had to
> > > create a
> > > view that hibernate pulls from. We like having the status_table
> > > look-up
> > > because it makes it easy to return sorted lists of projects, while
> > > giving us
> > > the freedom to change status text.
> >
> >
> > Put this in Project.java if you want a convenience method for this
> > purpose.
> >
> > public String getStatusName() {
> > return getStatus().getName();
> > }
> >
> >
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