We are modeling the delivery of online exams using OrderHeader and
OrderItem. The client needs to check often to see if the statusId has been
changed by the supervisor.
Would we be better off to create another entity, keyed by orderId and
orderItemSeqId, just for this purpose?
-Al
On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 2:24 PM, David E Jones
<david.jo...@hotwaxmedia.com>wrote:
>
> Stepping back a little, why do you want to cache data from those entities?
>
> -David
>
>
>
> On Mar 19, 2009, at 11:13 AM, Al Byers wrote:
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> I am moving this post to dev because I see that "extend-entity" does not
>> call populateBasicInfo in ModelEntity. I am guessing that there are
>> properties that you do not want overridden in extend-entity, but I would
>> like to override "never-cache".
>>
>> I see that there is a "setNeverCache", but I don't see when it would be
>> called - when are instances of ModelEntity created - couldn't there be
>> many
>> of them? When would I apply "setNeverCache"?
>>
>> Here is what populateBasicInfo sets:
>> this.entityName =
>> UtilXml.checkEmpty(entityElement.getAttribute("entity-name")).intern();
>> this.tableName =
>> UtilXml.checkEmpty(entityElement.getAttribute("table-name"),
>> ModelUtil.javaNameToDbName(this.entityName)).intern();
>> this.packageName =
>> UtilXml.checkEmpty(entityElement.getAttribute("package-name")).intern();
>> this.defaultResourceName =
>>
>> UtilXml.checkEmpty(entityElement.getAttribute("default-resource-name")).intern();
>> this.dependentOn =
>> UtilXml.checkEmpty(entityElement.getAttribute("dependent-on")).intern();
>> this.doLock =
>> UtilXml.checkBoolean(entityElement.getAttribute("enable-lock"), false);
>> this.noAutoStamp =
>> UtilXml.checkBoolean(entityElement.getAttribute("no-auto-stamp"), false);
>> this.neverCache =
>> UtilXml.checkBoolean(entityElement.getAttribute("never-cache"), false);
>> this.autoClearCache =
>> UtilXml.checkBoolean(entityElement.getAttribute("auto-clear-cache"),
>> true);
>>
>> Plus it sets sequenceBankSize.
>> How many, if any, of these fields should be callable from "extend-entity"?
>>
>> -Al
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: Al Byers <bye...@automationgroups.com>
>> Date: Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 1:10 AM
>> Subject: Why "never-cache" on OrderHeader and OrderItem?
>> To: u...@ofbiz.apache.org
>>
>>
>> What is the general reason for turning cache off?
>>
>> Why for OrderHeader and OrderItem, in particular?
>>
>> Can caching be turned on via "extend-entity"?
>>
>> thanks for any info.
>>
>> -Al
>>
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