Andrus Adamchik wrote: > I guess the term "comment" is too narrow and misleading here. I was > thinking more of a CAY-400 approach: > > https://issues.apache.org/cayenne/browse/CAY-400 > > I.e. a list of key/value pairs rather than a single comment.
While technically comments could be represented as key/value pairs I would vote to keep documentation separated from that. In past EOF projects I did some tricks in the webapp using the userInfo on attributes and relationships that would require the key/value pairs ot resist in memory. Picking up your idea of lazily loading properties upon first access, representing documentation as key/value pairs would bring the doc strings into memory which is most definitely not what you want ... -dirk -- A: Maybe because some people are too annoyed by top-posting. Q: Why do I not get an answer to my question(s)? A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?