CayUtils? I'm good with Cayenne, too.
Robert
On Nov 24, 2009, at 11/245:53 AM , Andrus Adamchik wrote:
> [As suggested in the parent thread, forking a new thread]
>
> On Nov 24, 2009, at 1:41 PM, Robert Zeigler wrote:
>
>> I'll second that. I ran into a very similar use case yesterday in a
>> hibernate project... I was wanting to get at hibernate's version of
>> ClassDescription, and it took me forever to track down the right
>> way to do it; once I knew how, it was simple enough, and just a few
>> lines of code, but I fear the above would cause a new Cayenne user
>> the same level of frustration I experienced yesterday with
>> Hibernate. ;)
>
> I wouldn't mind if we add methods for ClassDescriptor lookups to the
> DataObjectUtils. BTW PersistentObject defines 'getObjEntity' method.
> I'd say we replace that with 'getClassDescriptor' and move it to a
> utility class.
>
> While we are at it, maybe rename DataObjectUtils to something more
> appropriate and shorter. CayenneUtil? Cayenne? ("Util" is already
> taken, and I'd rather it identify the origin of the framework).
>
> I sort of like calling it just "Cayenne" (for the same reasons of
> user simplicity), but then it implies this is a central class in the
> framework, and has more than just lookup-by-pk or give-me-metadata
> methods.
>
> Andrus
>
>
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