I'd be +1 on this. Thought about it in the past. Shouldn't be too hard to do either.
Andrus > On Nov 27, 2019, at 3:06 PM, Michael Gentry <blackn...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I just happened across an article on Hibernate which talks about lazy > attributes. (A recent addition, I think.) This essentially allows you to > flag an attribute/column as lazy and it'll be excluded from the original > SELECT query, but if you call the getter it will then fetch it in. This is > convenient for BLOB-type data that might happen to be in a main table with > other attributes (such as MIME types, file sizes, file names, etc). > > Thoughts on maybe adding this feature to Cayenne? I can imagine there'd be > a "Lazy" column in Cayenne Modeler for the attributes to control/identify > them. > > Thanks, > > mrg
