Re: Hinting for datatype in Modeler?

From: Tore Halset (halse..vv.ntnu.no)
Date: Tue Dec 30 2008 - 04:13:03 EST

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    Hello.

    The new merge functionality in the modeler was created to handle this.
    Firebird is not supported, but please try it out and report any problem.

      - Tore.

    On Dec 29, 2008, at 23:07, "John Armstrong" <siberia..mail.com> wrote:

    > Hi everyone,
    > My database (Firebird) does not support boolean types. Cayenne helps
    > me with this by letting me use a char(1) to emulate booleans. Thanks!
    >
    > The problem I have is that I am doing a lot of back and forth in my
    > database design and I treat the database as authoritative rather then
    > using the modeler for all activities and just reverse engineer the db
    > into the modeler. This means that every time I regen the model this
    > way I have to manually set 50+ fields from java.lang.String to boolean
    > types.
    >
    > Anyone have a tip for getting around this?
    >
    > John-
    >



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