Per this document Cayenne supports various PK generation strategies with "Meaningful Primary Key" being user-defined, and the rest generated by the framework:
http://cayenne.apache.org/doc/primary-key-generation.html PkGenerator is an existing interface that implements these strategies. The task is about making it managed by Cayenne dependency injection (DI) container. A similar task done in 3.1 was switching DbAdapter to DI. Currently DbAdapter owns PkGenerator. The task is about breaking this dependency and making PkGenerator directly injectable where it is needed. BTW this may sound simple, but is actually a fairly deep design task. So if you feel like you need to learn Cayenne runtime before taking on it, I'd recommend maybe other tasks from my earlier list. But of course you are welcome to take on this one right away :) Andrus On Jul 5, 2012, at 5:59 PM, Eshan Sudharaka wrote: > Or is it about adding the primary key functionality like auto increment > which we can see in JPA ? (generating the values of the primary keys for > each rows of a table) > On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 8:00 PM, Eshan Sudharaka <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Hi, >> I am interested in this task and need some more information regarding >> this. I have a basic question regarding this PkGenerator. >> >> As i see DbEntity contains a collection of DbAttributes for primary key >> construction and I think this collection is initialized when we configure >> primary keys through the cayenne modeler. So It is bit unclear me to >> understand the requirement of having a Pkgenerator while is is the users >> responsibility to set the primary key for a DbEntity. It would be great if >> you can explain to logic behind this. >> >> -- >> *~Thanks & Regards~* >> *** >> * >> Eshan >> >> > > > -- > *~Thanks & Regards~* > *** > * > P.A.Eshan Sudharaka > Dept of Computer Science and Engineering > University of Moratuwa > Sri Lanka > http://esudharaka.blogspot.com/
