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Subject: Re: Reverse engineering and dates
From: Andrus Adamchik <andrus@objectstyle.org>
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Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2016 11:41:03 -0400
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archived-at: Mon, 27 Jun 2016 15:41:08 -0000

I completely forgot. We have the whole new (M4; poorly documented) =
mechanism for configuring tons of reverse-engineering details that =
provides a new project file. All these settings should go there.=20

Andrus

> On Jun 27, 2016, at 11:11 AM, Giaccone, Tony =
<anthony.giaccone@nytimes.com> wrote:
>=20
> Yes, I think that's fine. It's specific to the project.
>=20
> On Sun, Jun 26, 2016 at 4:56 PM, Andrus Adamchik =
<andrus@objectstyle.org>
> wrote:
>=20
>>=20
>> Fair enough. We do need to provide reverse engineering settings. I =
think
>> those may be implemented as the properties of the DataMap, like =
default
>> package, etc.
>>=20
>> Andrus
>>=20
>>> On Jun 26, 2016, at 4:47 PM, Gmail <tgiaccone@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>=20
>>> There are a lot of project using something other than the =
traditional
>> Java Date.
>>>=20
>>> Tony Giaccone
>>>=20
>>>> On Jun 25, 2016, at 5:30 PM, Andrus Adamchik =
<andrus@objectstyle.org>
>> wrote:
>>>>=20
>>>> I wonder if instead of (in addition to) Joda preferences, we add a
>> single preference - "Java 8", and if that's on use the new Java 8 =
date/time
>> types that were all influenced by Joda. Thoughts?
>>>>=20
>>>> Andrus
>>>>=20
>>>>> On Jun 22, 2016, at 2:01 PM, Anthony Giaccone <
>> anthony.giaccone@nytimes.com> wrote:
>>>>>=20
>>>>> Yeah,
>>>>>=20
>>>>> I have an existing schema and it=E2=80=99s something of a mess, =
and were using
>> git, so different branches have different schemas with different
>> attributes.  So I=E2=80=99m re-engineering a lot.
>>>>>=20
>>>>> I did what you suggested the first three times but then I was =
like.
>> "Meh, there should be a better way=E2=80=A6.=E2=80=9D
>>>>>=20
>>>>>=20
>>>>> Maybe something as simple as a preferences page which specifies =
what
>> class to use for the basic mappings?  Or maybe even easier, =E2=80=9CJo=
da Time=E2=80=9D and
>> a check box.
>>>>>=20
>>>>>=20
>>>>>=20
>>>>> Tony
>>>>>=20
>>>>>=20
>>>>> I=E2=80=99m also changing a bunch of lookup tables that curren
>>>>>=20
>>>>>> On Jun 22, 2016, at 12:19 PM, John Huss <johnthuss@gmail.com> =
wrote:
>>>>>>=20
>>>>>> If this is a one-time task, just open up the cayenne-*.map.xml =
file
>> in a
>>>>>> text editor and do a Find and Replace All of "java.util.Date" =
with
>>>>>> "org.joda.time.DateTime".
>>>>>>=20
>>>>>>=20
>>>>>>> On Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 11:06 AM Tony Giaccone =
<tgiaccone@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>>>>>>=20
>>>>>>> When reverse engineering a database, the java.util.Date class is
>> used in
>>>>>>> all the classes that reference timestamps. Is there a way to get
>> this to
>>>>>>> default to another class?  I'd like to use Joda's
>> org.joda.time.DateTime
>>>>>>> instead.
>>>>>>>=20
>>>>>>> Is there an easy way to swap this out when the classes get =
generated?
>>>>>>>=20
>>>>>>>=20
>>>>>>>=20
>>>>>>> Tony
>>>>=20
>>=20
>>=20