A workspace search for the .xmi version came up empty.
Deleted that file and re-ran Designer with old workspace and new/empty workspace. Did some modeling with no errors.
So I'm gonna say we Designer doesn't use that file.
Barry
From: "Steven Hawkins" <shawkins@redhat.com>
To: "Barry Lafond" <blafond@redhat.com>
Cc: "teiid-designer-dev" <teiid-designer-dev@lists.jboss.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2012 11:20:15 AM
Subject: Re: [teiid-designer-dev] A new datatype
----- Original Message -----
>
>
> Steve,
>
> To be honest we haven't touched the built-in data-type definitions
> for probably more than 5-6 years and I wasn't in charge of them back
> then.
>
> So there's a learning curve I have to jump on.
>
> Designer's ".sdt" plugin contains both a built-in data-types .xsd &
> .xmi files. Not sure yet how they are related and if both are used.
> The XMI file does contain UUID's from the XSD file, or it could be
> vice-versa.
It looks straight-forward to add the updated .xsd to a vdb and it will produce an appropriate index file. I can use this to update the system vdb. I'll also put the new xsd in the metadata module with the system vdb for reference.
However the .xmi file does not appear to be recognized by either old (554) or new versions of designer. Can you determine if the .xmi file is in use?
>
> So as a minimum you are correct, adding the "varbinary" type to
> builtin-types.xsd is the place to start.
>
> And I don't know the answer to "do we index enterprise datatype
> information on a per vdb basis?
The answer is indeed yes, which is what I was expecting. The long run question is then what additional information is needed to make those entries truly extensible datatypes rather than just being reduced to their base runtime type. That is much too big to do for 8, so for now we'll just look at adding more built-in types.
>
> Barry
>
>
>
>
> From: "Steven Hawkins" <shawkins@redhat.com>
> To: "teiid-designer-dev" <teiid-designer-dev@lists.jboss.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2012 11:00:12 AM
> Subject: Re: [teiid-designer-dev] A new datatype
>
> A follow-up question. The datatypes index we use in the system vdb
> looks like it was generated from the builtin-types.xsd. To add a new
> type, do I need to modify that xsd and in what version of designer
> would I then generate the appropriate index file? Related to that,
> do we index enterprise datatype information on a per vdb basis?
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> > Hello all,
> >
> > What would be the impact in designer for adding a new type?
> > https://issues.jboss.org/browse/TEIID-1834 could be achieved by
> > adding a varbinary type. At the very least on the teiid side we'd
> > update the DatatypeManager, the system vdb, and our type logic. But
> > I'm not clear what impact there would be design time. Based upon
> > the ease/difficulty of this we'll also be able to evaluate when it
> > makes sense to add array type handling.
> >
> > Steve
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