Crap. OK. Nothing like an occasional reminder of what happens when you
assume things.
Thanks for the tip Michael-- I'll just use another method for now.
Dave
On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 1:18 PM, Michael Gentry <mgentr..asslight.net>wrote:
> I believe single-table and horizontal have been implemented, but I
> don't think vertical has been implemented yet. There is still an open
> ticket for vertical inheritance:
>
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CAY-1090
>
>
> On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 1:59 PM, Dave Lamy <davelam..mail.com> wrote:
> > Yes, I'm attempting vertical multiple-table inheritance. I was assuming
> > functionality based upon this document:
> >
> > http://cayenne.apache.org/doc/inheritance-overview.html
> >
> > which had this section:
> > Vertical (joined) inheritance
> >
> > This final approach requires one table per subclass plus one table for
> the
> > superclass. All attributes found in the superclass are stored in this
> > additional table. This is particularly useful when you have lots of
> common
> > attributes or relations to other entities. Perhaps Person is subclassed
> by
> > Student, Teacher, Parent, AdminStaff, Visitor and Applicant. But all
> these
> > entities are allowed to borrow books from the library. Now, rather than
> > creating 6 relationships between each of these tables to the Loan table,
> you
> > can create a single relationship between Person and Loan.
> >
> > Superclass: abstract or concrete
> > Class designator column: required
> > Primary key: in superclass. Copied into subclass to form the one-to-one
> > join.
> >
> > Perhaps this is not yet implemented? :-(
> >
> > Dave
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 12:46 PM, Michael Gentry <mgentr..asslight.net
> >wrote:
> >
> >> You are trying to do multiple-table inheritance?
> >>
> >> Unless I'm mistaken, I don't believe that has been implemented yet.
> >> Cayenne can do in-table inheritance using a discriminator column.
> >>
> >>
> >> On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 1:10 PM, Dave Lamy <davelam..mail.com> wrote:
> >> > Hey guys--
> >> >
> >> > I'm attempting to model some inheritance for the first time and it's
> not
> >> > working yet. Here's my situation:
> >> >
> >> > My model is to have a non-abstract parent class->table and then
> >> > subclass->tables like so:
> >> >
> >> > First I should doublecheck to make sure my mapping XML looks OK:
> >> >
> >> > <db-entity name="ASSET_CONTENT">
> >> > ...
> >> > <db-attribute name="CONTENT_TYPE" type="VARCHAR" length="50"/>
> >> > <db-attribute name="ID" type="INTEGER" isPrimaryKey="true"
> >> > isGenerated="true" isMandatory="true"/>
> >> > ...
> >> > </db-entity>
> >> > <db-entity name="IMAGE_ASSET_CONTENT">
> >> > <db-attribute name="HEIGHT" type="INTEGER"/>
> >> > <db-attribute name="ID" type="INTEGER" isPrimaryKey="true"
> >> > isMandatory="true"/>
> >> > <db-attribute name="WIDTH" type="INTEGER"/>
> >> > </db-entity>
> >> > <obj-entity name="AssetContent"
> >> > className="com.routeto1.asset.filesystem.AssetContent"
> >> > lock-type="optimistic" dbEntityName="ASSET_CONTENT"
> >> > superClassName="com.routeto1.data.impl.DynamicDataObject">
> >> > <obj-attribute name="contentType" type="java.lang.String"
> >> > db-attribute-path="CONTENT_TYPE"/>
> >> > ...
> >> > <pre-persist method-name="prePersist"/>
> >> > </obj-entity>
> >> > <obj-entity name="ImageAssetContent" superEntityName="AssetContent"
> >> > className="com.routeto1.asset.filesystem.ImageAssetContent"
> >> > lock-type="optimistic" dbEntityName="IMAGE_ASSET_CONTENT">
> >> > <qualifier><![CDATA[contentType = "IMAGE"]]></qualifier>
> >> > <obj-attribute name="height" type="java.lang.Integer"
> >> > db-attribute-path="HEIGHT"/>
> >> > <obj-attribute name="width" type="java.lang.Integer"
> >> > db-attribute-path="WIDTH"/>
> >> > </obj-entity>
> >> >
> >> > Not sure if I need to provide you any more than that. Cayenne accepts
> >> the
> >> > config fine, but when I create a new ImageAssetContent and save it,
> >> Cayenne
> >> > only saves to the IMAGE_ASSET_CONTENT table:
> >> >
> >> > 2009-09-24 10:30:53,602 INFO [org.apache.cayenne.access.QueryLogger] -
> >> > <INSERT INTO IMAGE_ASSET_CONTENT (HEIGHT, ID, WIDTH) VALUES (?, ?, ?)>
> >> > 2009-09-24 10:30:53,656 INFO [org.apache.cayenne.access.QueryLogger] -
> >> > <[batch bind: 1->HEIGHT:440, 2->ID:220, 3->WIDTH:495]>
> >> >
> >> > I've confirmed that there is data in the object that should be getting
> >> saved
> >> > to the ASSET_CONTENT table but is not.
> >> >
> >> > What's also interesting is that it is pulling an auto PK value (this
> is
> >> > running on a Derby DB for testing):
> >> >
> >> > 2009-09-24 10:30:53,258 INFO [org.apache.cayenne.access.QueryLogger] -
> >> > <SELECT NEXT_ID FROM AUTO_PK_SUPPORT WHERE TABLE_NAME = ? FOR UPDATE
> >> [bind:
> >> > 1:'IMAGE_ASSET_CONTENT']>
> >> >
> >> > Not so interesting that it's pulling one, but for IMAGE_ASSET_CONTENT?
> >> I'd
> >> > assume it would be pulling for ASSET_CONTENT and reusing that ID in
> both
> >> the
> >> > parent and child tables.
> >> >
> >> > Am I missing something really basic?
> >> >
> >> > I've tested this on 3.0 M5 and M6 with same results.
> >> >
> >> > Dave
> >> >
> >>
> >
>
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