I was wondering if castor supports proxy objects?. I can't seem to find any mention of this topic anywhere in the docs, nor in the mailing lists (after googling it).
I mainly want to use it for displaying search results, as I don't want to castor to have to load the full objects. Will future versions of castor support proxy objects, if they are not currently supported? I guess I could make a seperate object sharing the same table as the proxied object, and then have the proxy object call castor to get the full object, but it makes it that much more messy ------------- What I envision: Have an interface org.exolab.castor.jdo.ProxyObject which just has the methods setProxy() and isProxy(). isProxy() is true if the instance is a proxyObject, false if is the proxiedObject. Add a method to the OQLQuery object like query.executeProxied() which does exactly the same as a normal query.execute() except it returns the proxy objects instead. If no proxy objects specified for the results, then just return the full object like normal. Add an extra attribute in the mapping files for the feilds, <field .... isProxy /> to indicate whether this field is included in the proxy object (others just ignored). Identity feild included by default. and an extra attribute to the class mapping <class .... isProxy /> to determine whether this particular class has a proxy object (maybe sub/super classes don't. Allows reuse of mapping files) Add a method getProxiedObject(ProxyObject obj) in interface Database, which returns the proxied object. Implementation uses the identity feild to identitify object. Comments ?? or am I just insane? Thanks, Bert. _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com ----------------------------------------------------------- If you wish to unsubscribe from this mailing, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of: unsubscribe castor-dev
