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From: John Huss <johnthuss@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2015 00:38:29 +0000
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Subject: Re: Is there a canonical method of invoking aggregate functions
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ERXKey is in cayenne 4.0 and is called Property and the default templates
create them for you.
On Mon, Sep 14, 2015 at 3:42 PM Joseph Senecal <senecal@apple.com> wrote:

> >
> > Can you give us a short summary of what features Wonder would bring to =
a
> Cayenne developer?
>
> My favorite Project Wonder extension for EOF would be the automatically
> generated ERXKeys.
>
> The Project Wonder template would generate a base class with all the
> getters and setters for a class (business logic would be in the super
> class). In addition to the getters and setters, these base classes includ=
ed
> fetch methods that returned a List of that class type instead of an untyp=
ed
> list. Also they included an ERXKey for each field or relation in the clas=
s.
>
> ERXKeys could be used to easily generate qualifiers (Queries) or sort
> orderings. These could easily be combined to generate more complex querie=
s.
> In addition, ERXKeys could be used to fetch a particular field out of eve=
ry
> record in a list of DB objects, returning a list of values. And since the
> ERXKey was defined with the field type, the returned list was correctly
> typed.
>
> Example:
> List<Foobar> data =3D
> Foobar.fetch(Foobar.FOO.eq(10).and(Foobar.BAR.eq(=E2=80=9CNOW=E2=80=9D)))=
;
> List<String> fieldData =3D Foobar.FOO_BAR.arrayValueInObject(data);
>
> Joe

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