I have created an issue in jira for this: http://www.fornax-platform.org/tracker/browse/CSC-226
If you and others think it is important we will of course give it priority and I think we can implement the support for the domain objects first, rather soon. /Patrik amphoras wrote: > > Hi Patrik, > > You asked: "Is it important to support multiple inheritance levels?" > > I did not answer the question when this was first posted because it was > before I started using Sculptor. > > My answer is "Yes!" Sculptor is very powerful, yet there is this > limitation on inheritance that is quite bothersome. I know that creating > a tree of inherited objects can be one of those anti-patterns, so I > understand the desire to not support it. However, sometimes inheritance > does make sense. And even if it is being abused, sometimes we have no > choice but to stick with it because the costs of refactoring the client > code is too high. Sculptor's support for inheritance is extremely > important because it feeds into many other templates like the Hibernate > template and other templates that I'm building. If Sculptor only supports > single-level inheritance, then my tools are stuck with that as the lowest > common denominator even if they (like Hibernate) do support multi-level. > So it would be wonderful if this restriction can be removed. It is giving > me a headache right now because I need to create a model with multi-level > inheritance. ;) > > Is this something that is difficult to support? Is there a hack or a few > that I can put in to make it work for me until you come up with an elegant > solution? I am not using the CRUD generation part of Sculptor, which you > mentioned before as being problematic for multi-level inheritance. Any > help that you can give me would be greatly appreciated. > > Thanks! > --Polly > > > > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/problem-with-multi-levels-class-inheritance%3A-Best-practices-tp17598981s17564p18976084.html Sent from the Fornax-Platform mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Fornax-developer mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fornax-developer
