This is possible. See http://cwiki.apache.org/CAY/mapping-primary-keys.html
Also, as far as I know new modeler has checkbox option for auto-generating
primary key attrs at reverse-engineering
2009/4/2 Dave Lamy <davelam..mail.com>
> No, I didn't.. just did the standard Cayenne mapping with a database ID
> column (auto-generated) which of course is not exposed in the Java class.
> What makes this even more fun is that I'm using a generic persistent class
> in several cases, so I don't have concrete Java classes/paths to work with.
> Was hoping to use some sort of pseudo-path like Hibernate's ".id" field in
> hql.
>
> So far the only real solution to this that I can see is to use a consistent
> PK column naming scheme.. like "ID".. and then use a db:ID path expression.
> But it's not ideal.
>
> On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 12:01 PM, Michael Gentry <mgentr..asslight.net
> >wrote:
>
> > Did you map your primary key as a Java attribute? If so, just include
> it.
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 12:53 PM, Dave Lamy <davelam..mail.com> wrote:
> > > I am composing a SelectQuery and want to include an expression to
> narrow
> > my
> > > results based upon the primary key (just an int ID) as well as other
> > > criteria. I am using the ExpressionFactory to generate the
> Expressions..
> > > specifically I have
> > >
> > > Expression expr = ExpressionFactory.inExp(<pathToId?>, idCollection);
> > >
> > > Question is: How do I represent the path to the primary key in an
> > > expression string like this?
> > >
> > > Thanks--
> > > Dave
> > >
> >
>
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