What is this doing that a parameterized custom type can't do ? Is this
"just" to get a cleaner hbm.xml syntax or ?
/max
Rob Hasselbaum wrote:
Steve,
Any additional input before I upload a new patch?
-Rob
On 09/03/2009 10:28 PM, Rob Hasselbaum wrote:
> Hi Steve,
>
> Thanks for the feedback. I am working on moving the patch to trunk as
> you requested. I'll update the bug when that's done. My comments on
> the rest of your feedback are inline below.
>
> On 09/03/2009 04:39 PM, Steve Ebersole wrote:
>> 1) Personally, I don't like the attribute names sql-get and sql-set.
>> When I think through trying to describe and explain this feature to
>> people, the terms "wrap" and "unwrap" keep coming to my head
as being
>> descriptive, relevant and natural. It was really the "naturalness"
>> aspect that got me with sql-get and sql-set. Other terms I could think
>> of included encode/decodeAny other suggestions?
>
> I went with "sql-set" and "sql-get" because they are consistent
with
> the existing "sql-type" attribute and make sense to me, but I'm not
> married to the terms. Wrap and unwrap sound good, too. Bear in mind
> that the expressions need not be function calls, which wrap and
> unwrap might suggest. The functional tests do math, for instance.
>
>> 2) Can anyone foresee a valid use-case for allowing one of these to be
>> defined w/o the other? The only thing I came up with was for immutable
>> properties. So something like <column name="xyz"
unwrap="decode(xyz)"
>> insert="false" update="false"/>, which can also be defined
using a
>> formula like <formula>decode(xyz)</formula>. The reason I ask is
that
>> if they should always be used together then maybe it is better to
>> enforce that in the DTD and/or binder
>
> I couldn't think of a use case for a one-way conversion either. In
> fact, you could end up reading out a different value than the one you
> put in if you're not careful. But I'd regret adding an artificial
> restriction if someone came up with a legitimate use case next year.
>
>> 3) You renamed the getTemplate method on Selectable to
>> getGetterTemplate. Everything in the o.h.mapping package is an SPI
>> that
>> is used by many other libraries. We need to be very careful about
>> changing stuff in here. I am not sure if folks bind to this particular
>> method. But since this is just a cosmetic change, I think it should be
>> reverted.
>
> Sorry, this was an oversight. At first, I thought I was going to need
> to store a setter template in addition to a getter template in the
> Column class, It turned out that I didn't need it, but I forgot to
> revert the name of the getter template. I'll fix that.
>
>> Still not done looking through the whole patch. Will try to finish up
>> tomorrow.
>
> Thanks,
> -Rob
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