Great job! And really impressing what you did in this short timeframe!
You neglected to mention that prototypes are now finally usable
without fear of model corruption:)
Cheers, Anjo
Am 06.08.2006 um 03:25 schrieb Mike Schrag:
> I'm calling the latest and greatest Entity Modeler "1.0 beta". It
> appears to be working on all the models I've been running it with.
> Here's the rundown on what it can do:
>
> * Read/Write EOModel bundles including EOModelGroup, EOModel,
> EOEntity, EOAttribute, EORelationship, EOJoin,
> EOFetchSpecification, EOQualifier, EOSortOrdering,
> EOStoredProcedure, EOArgument (i.e. EOAttribute on a stored
> procedure), and User Info
> * Editors for all of the above, a new EOModeler Perspective, and
> custom Outline support for all the EOModel elements
> * Cut/Copy/Paste support for all of the above
> * NSBundle-style discovery of EOModels that are "reachable" by your
> project for autoloading of EOModelGroups
> * Flattened relationships and attributes + UI (which includes a KVC
> implementation)
> * Prototypes, including support for writing models with missing/
> unresolved prototypes without destroying your model (and column
> name doesn't disappear when you change an attribute's prototype)
> * Model verifier that finds possible model errors (runs
> automatically at startup and save, but can be run on-demand by an
> action as well)
> * Inheritance "helper" that supports Horizontal, Vertical, and
> Single-Table
> * Changing the database in your connection dictionary's URL
> invalidates and reloads prototypes on-the-fly so that datatypes are
> properly reflected for the new prototypes
> * .eomodelgroup files (+ creation wizard) for overriding NSBundle
> model resolution (for defining custom model groups)
> * "Create EOGenerator File" action on .eomodeld that autogenerates
> an EOGenerator .eogen file by looking up all referenced EOModels
> * Auto-create .eogen files in EOModel creation wizard
> * Automatic execution of EOGenerator when models change
> * Diff-stable .eomodeld files by sorting appropriate plist
> and .eomodeld dictionaries and sets
> * SQL generation and execution that runs using your runtime plugins
> * Database Configurations (and UI to create them) on your EOModel.
> Allows the definition of multiple connection dictionaries (along
> with custom selection of the prototype to use). SQL Generation
> dialog allows you to choose which database config to generate with.
> * Per-project "delegates" for SQL generation -- If you declare a
> class named "org.objectstyle.wolips.eomodeler.EOModelProcessor" in
> your project with the API:
> public void processModel(EOModel _model, NSMutableArray _entities,
> NSMutableDictionary _flags);
> public void processSQL(StringBuffer _sqlBuffer, EOModel _model,
> NSMutableArray _entities, NSMutableDictionary _flags);
> you can intercept and modify the SQL generation process before and
> after the SQL string is created to provide customizations.
>
> ms
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