The main thing I'd want to use a "user info" dictionary/map for is to
generate JavaDoc documentation for the getters, setters,
relationships, and class. It would also be nice if you could add
documentation for the database tables and columns and for databases
that support comments, when we generate the schema I'd like it to add
the documentation as a comment for the table/column. For Java classes
that don't have a user info documentation for a class/attribute, but
the database entry does have documentation, use the database
(DbEntity) documentation in the JavaDoc. It would also be nice if the
documentation was very visible in the modeler to encourage use. In
EOModeler for EOF, the user info dictionary was buried and not as
useful.
I'm sure there could be other uses that people dream up, but
documenting the model would be the most popular I'd imagine -- at
least among the people I know.
mrg
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