Max Length

[Michael Gentry]

One thing I recently added to our common/shared base class is:

    /**
     * Lookup the maximum database length defined in the Cayenne model for
     * the given attribute.
     *
     * @param attribute The attribute to lookup.
     * @return The maximum length for the attribute.
     */
    public int getMaxLength(String attribute)
    {
        return 
getObjEntity().getAttributeMap().get(attribute).getDbAttribute().getMaxLength();
    }


Would it make sense to add this to CayenneDataObject in 3.1?  We use
it to limit file upload sizes and do client-side validation in the UI.
 I could also see isMandatory() being useful, too.  Scale/precision
not as much, but might help some.

Thoughts?

Thanks,

mrg