Re: [seam-dev] To cascade or not...

On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 7:18 PM, Max Rydahl Andersen <max.andersen(a)redhat.com > On 05-03-2009 00:06, Dan Allen wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 5:05 PM, Max Rydahl Andersen < > max.andersen(a)redhat.com> >> Convenient does not mean it should be default. >> >> Anyway, for GA we will keep the "old" default since it was discovered too >> late. >> >> Then when we do have the ui for controlling the default I would just have >> a few options but >> let none be the default since it is the less risky one and you can set the >> default option in persistence.xml >> instead of going set it on every single entity. >> > > It's clearly a programming/architecture style since we all are pushing our > own viewpoints. Thus, I think you should have an option in the UI for the > user to enter whatever default he/she wants. Perhaps check boxes would be > nice. > > I don't really like the idea of setting the defaults in the XML as it > changes the behavior of the application and makes it non-portable (or harder > to connect the dots for someone looking at the annotations). > > So can we agree to disagree and make it a choice for the developer? > > I wrote that above didn't I ? :) ALL is kept for now, a choice will be > added going forward. > > btw. no single app in this world will use the same cascade on all > assocations hence setting i.e. ALL is > encouraging a very bad practice ... but for now I can't change it since the > alternative is just as bad because > of backwards compatability. > Yep, I'll raise my glass to that. -Dan -- Dan Allen Senior Software Engineer, Red Hat | Author of Seam in Action http://mojavelinux.com http://mojavelinux.com/seaminaction NOTE: While I make a strong effort to keep up with my email on a daily basis, personal or other work matters can sometimes keep me away from my email. If you contact me, but don't hear back for more than a week, it is very likely that I am excessively backlogged or the message was caught in the spam filters. Please don't hesitate to resend a message if you feel that it did not reach my attention.