[forge-dev] Scaffolding immutable JPA entities

[Vineet Reynolds Pereira]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Max Rydahl Andersen" <manderse at redhat.com>
> To: "forge-dev List" <forge-dev at lists.jboss.org>
> Sent: Thursday, June 27, 2013 5:09:01 PM
> Subject: Re: [forge-dev] Scaffolding immutable JPA entities
> 
> On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 06:48:22AM -0400, Vineet Reynolds Pereira wrote:
> >Hi Max,
> >
> >  I guess should have replied back to the ML with details of the discussion
> >  we had in #forge.
> >
> >  We might introduce support for scaffolding immutable entities correctly.
> >  That is however a lower priority item, since we anticipate fewer object
> >  models to use immutable types. And the extra effort needed to support
> >  these types kind of warrant a lower priority for this item. For now, this
> >  is being tracked in FORGE-978
> >  <https://issues.jboss.org/browse/FORGE-978>. I havent thought about using
> >  a Map based approach for the search criterias, but thats probably because
> >  I didn't consider it at all. I was considering the creation of new
> >  mutable types that mirror the immutable ones, but if the Map based
> >  approach works for both search criteria facelet as well as for the edit
> >  entity facelet, I'll go for it. As long as the generated scaffold is not
> >  very far off from how end-users model their apps for production, I'll use
> >  any possible solution.
> 
> You would be generating like a <Entity>DO instead ?

I didnt quite catch that. To clarify, it would be a POJO/DTO; certainly not an Entity since I'd like to avoid issues with the EntityManager deciding to persist or manage it.

> 
> 
> >Thanks,
> >Vineet
> >
> >
> >
> >----- Original Message -----
> >> From: "Max Rydahl Andersen" <manderse at redhat.com>
> >> To: "forge-dev List" <forge-dev at lists.jboss.org>
> >> Sent: Thursday, June 27, 2013 3:27:21 PM
> >> Subject: Re: [forge-dev] Scaffolding immutable JPA entities
> >>
> >> This is happening because you can't use the entity it self as "data entry"
> >> model
> >> to pass to criterias/queries etc ?
> >>
> >> Could it make sense to have a way to fallback on to map based approach for
> >> search criterias
> >> which are not mapped to strongly typed classes when you are dealing with
> >> such
> >> immutable types
> >> (or rather entities without setters) ?
> >>
> >> /max
> >>
> >> On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 07:23:47PM -0400, Vineet Reynolds Pereira wrote:
> >> >Hey all,
> >> >
> >> >   FORGE-917 <https://issues.jboss.org/browse/FORGE-917> was fixed a few
> >> >   days back where in immutable classes were excluded from the generated
> >> >   scaffold, i.e. no create,search,update screens were generated for such
> >> >   classes.
> >> >
> >> >   I've run into a related problem where other JPA entities are composed
> >> >   of
> >> >   one or more immutable types. The generated scaffold does not allow
> >> >   creation of the constituent immutable types (obviously) along with the
> >> >   root JPA entity. Additionally, if these root JPA entities contain Bean
> >> >   Validation constraints on the immutable types, then creation or
> >> >   updation
> >> >   of these entities would fail depending on what constraints are
> >> >   imposed.
> >> >
> >> >   I think this scenario demands that this limitation be documented with
> >> >   possible approaches to resolve this issue. Obviously, it makes little
> >> >   sense to also prevent scaffolds from being generated for JPA entities
> >> >   composed of immutable types. Also, this makes revisit FORGE-917 -
> >> >   should
> >> >   we revisit the design of the generated managed (view)beans to support
> >> >   immutable types?
> >> >
> >> >   What do you think?
> >> >
> >> >Vineet
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