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Subject: Re: Reverse engineering and dates
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Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2016 17:42:43 -0400
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archived-at: Tue, 12 Jul 2016 21:42:50 -0000

Does that mean it's possible now but undocumented or that the capability nee=
ds to be implemented using these new features?=20

Tony Giaccone

> On Jun 27, 2016, at 11:41 AM, Andrus Adamchik <andrus@objectstyle.org> wro=
te:
>=20
> I completely forgot. We have the whole new (M4; poorly documented) mechani=
sm for configuring tons of reverse-engineering details that provides a new p=
roject file. All these settings should go there.=20
>=20
> Andrus
>=20
>> On Jun 27, 2016, at 11:11 AM, Giaccone, Tony <anthony.giaccone@nytimes.co=
m> 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/t=
ime
>>> 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 w=
ere 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=9CJod=
a 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 generate=
d?
>>>>>>>>=20
>>>>>>>>=20
>>>>>>>>=20
>>>>>>>> Tony
>=20