Mailing-List: contact cayenne-user-help@incubator.apache.org; run by ezmlm
Precedence: bulk
Reply-To: cayenne-user@incubator.apache.org
Received-SPF: pass (herse.apache.org: domain of duddelfuddel@googlemail.com
 designates 66.249.92.171 as permitted sender)
DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws;
        s=beta; d=googlemail.com;
        h=received:message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references:x-google-sender-auth;
        b=UirqYqNLgfdKwIoNCwMk0Mp8LAp+O6yg5VA5cY/b7qbifElacS+1ZVhBRGLVf6IbUz6cSQHmUg0fU0810OfcRsm+VzsrNw0x9Ao4JUK6vHR96sT44WK+ZhDQ2EhGs4Gr3Q+9uZx82Vwh1Wfqh6QvGagL6PP1Qp7VOia4mK4+D8A=
Message-ID: <e0b37ed50612202311w37821610hfb7a4cac1ebb613c@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2006 08:11:38 +0100
From: "Juergen Saar" <juergen@jsaar.org>
Sender: duddelfuddel@googlemail.com
To: cayenne-user@incubator.apache.org
Subject: Re: Lookup tables
In-Reply-To: <f65b8ae30612201953q4d2f0a17gba414f72a35d83fb@mail.gmail.com>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
	boundary="----=_Part_37930_27674246.1166685098930"
References: <466a19d0612201634x2e00a1ccv41b02ab7534f42ea@mail.gmail.com>
	 <081F461C-BC87-4E68-8B67-CD36C3E1A6CA@ish.com.au>
	 <f65b8ae30612201953q4d2f0a17gba414f72a35d83fb@mail.gmail.com>

------=_Part_37930_27674246.1166685098930
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Content-Disposition: inline

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 <blacknext@gmail.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 <ari@ish.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();
> > }
> >
> >
> > Ari Maniatis
> >
> > -------------------------->
> > ish
> > http://www.ish.com.au
> > Level 1, 30 Wilson Street Newtown 2042 Australia
> > phone +61 2 9550 5001   fax +61 2 9550 4001
> > GPG fingerprint CBFB 84B4 738D 4E87 5E5C  5EFA EF6A 7D2E 3E49 102A
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>

------=_Part_37930_27674246.1166685098930--