Does that make sense?
yes
Am I the only one who thinks that would be incredibly useful? :)
I do too ;-)
Is something like this already planned for 3.0?
yes. In fact JPA spec that we are working on supports this type of
mapping. So Cayenne will too.
Cheers,
Andrus
On Jan 16, 2007, at 7:14 AM, Robert Zeigler wrote:
Currently (to the best of my knowledge), cayenne always represents a
to-many relationship as a java.util.List. However, I was thinking it
would be nifty if cayenne supported map-representations of to-many
relationships. For instance, you could model a relationship between
Users and UserPreferences as a map, and specify the "name" property of
the UserPreferences table as the map key. Does that make sense? Am I
the only one who thinks that would be incredibly useful? :) Is
something
like this already planned for 3.0?
If other people would find it useful, then I'd be happy to submit a
feature request and also work up a patch.
Robert
