On Wednesday, Oct 22, 2003, at 07:54 Europe/Rome, Andrus Adamchik wrote:
>
> On Wednesday, October 22, 2003, at 01:43 AM, Giulio Cesare Solaroli
> wrote:
>
>> This reminds me of another important feature I would love to see in
>> Cayenne: fetch specifications stored on the model.
>>
>> Having a way to encode a full expression in one string should allow
>> to handle the fetch specification on the model quite easy; all that
>> is left to do is to specify the sort ordering and eventually the
>> fetch limit.
>
> Actually encoding SelectQueries in the model has been on the list for
> quiet a while. It didn't make it to Cayenne so far exactly for the
> lack for human readable encoding of expressions. I didn't want to see
> any more ugly XML nested structures (kind of Ant style) like this :-) > :
>
> <and>
> <equals key="artistName" value="5"/>
> <equals key="dateOfBirth" value="01-01-1900"/>
> <or>
> <like key="paintingArray.name" value="A*"/>
> <like key="paintingArray.name" value="B*"/>
> <or>
> </and>
>
> But if we get stuck with the parser, what the hell, we can implement
> it as one of those....
I can perfectly understand your feeling!! :-]
Sorry, but I can't promise anything on timing, as now I am very busy
handling my daily tasks.
Anyway I keep the list updated on any progress.
Giulio Cesare
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