[jira] [Commented] (TORQUE-343) Implement a central registry for peerImpls like the registry for managers

2016-06-16 Thread Thomas Fox (JIRA)

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Thomas Fox commented on TORQUE-343:
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You can already dynamically extend and exchange the PeerImpls by 
SomePeer.setSomePeerImpl() method. It is already kind of a distributed 
registry. Would the SomePeers query the registry instead of storing the 
PeerImpls locally?

Also a central registry has the problem of type safety. The PeerImpls are 
currently generic, yet there are some methods which are generated for some 
PeerImpls but not for others (e.g. retrieveByPK(String, int, String, Integer, 
Byte, Short, Long, Double, Double, Date) is generated for BaseMultiPkPeerImpl 
but not for BaseAuthorPeerImpl) which would require explicit casts if the type 
of the returned PeerImpl is not known.

Where would the registry be used? If you can point to some use cases, I could 
better make up my opinion.


As for moving the buildCriteria(obj) to the RecordMapper, I'd rather not do 
this. Currently, a RecordMapper has the single purpose to map a database record 
to the Object. So if one has as strange database structure one has to read, one 
can easily implement the RecordMapper interface to perform the mapping 
manually. See e.g. the clases in org.apache.torque.om.mapper. Moving other 
functionality into this interface would impede this function in my opinion.
However, I'd rather suggest to cerate another object which is responsible for 
creating the other way round (object to database) (name suggestion: 
...Selector) which then would contain the buildCriteria(Object) method (as well 
as perhaps the other build...CriteriaMethods). However this would again 
increase the number of created classes, so I am not sure whether this does not 
add too much complexity.

As for moving the buildCriteria(obj) to the table map: The table map is 
currently not a generated class. How would you accesss the relevant getters for 
the data object there?

Again, can you provide a reson why it would be favorable to move the 
buildCriteria(obj) method?

> Implement a central registry for peerImpls like the registry for managers
> -
>
> Key: TORQUE-343
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TORQUE-343
> Project: Torque
>  Issue Type: Improvement
>  Components: Runtime, Templates
>Affects Versions: 4.0
>Reporter: Thomas Vandahl
>Assignee: Thomas Vandahl
> Fix For: 4.1
>
>
> I'd like to suggest a central registry for peerImpl-objects which can be 
> queried by the Persistent class it is responsible for. This would allow 
> reusing and extending the peer objects dynamically as well as giving them 
> some kind of life-cycle.
> The main method would be similar to this:
> {code:java}
> public  BasePeerImpl getPeerFor(Class persistentClass)
> {
> return peerRegistry.get(persistentClass);
> }
> {code}
> I would also like to suggest moving the buildCriteria(obj) method to the 
> RecordMapper or the TableMap class. This will further reduce the amount of 
> code that needs to be generated.
> If the idea is received well, I'll come up with a proposal.



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[jira] [Commented] (TORQUE-343) Implement a central registry for peerImpls like the registry for managers

2016-06-16 Thread Thomas Vandahl (JIRA)

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Thomas Vandahl commented on TORQUE-343:
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Yes I know about the extensibility. The use case I have in mind is the 
extension of persistent classes in a library like in Fulcrum Security. You  are 
supposed to extend e.g. user objects to match your requirements. Right now, we 
always need to configure the OM class *and* its Peer class to handle this case. 
It would be easier to query the Torque instance for the PeerImpl class for a 
given OM class.

Another use case I found are complex queries. I found it very useful to define 
separate (non-generated) PeerImpl/RecordMapper classes to handle complex joins 
within custom-built objects. In the end I found myself up creating those 
PeerImpl object instances over and over again because I had no real place to 
store them. This is normally not necessary as these objects are thread safe.

to be continued...



> Implement a central registry for peerImpls like the registry for managers
> -
>
> Key: TORQUE-343
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TORQUE-343
> Project: Torque
>  Issue Type: Improvement
>  Components: Runtime, Templates
>Affects Versions: 4.0
>Reporter: Thomas Vandahl
>Assignee: Thomas Vandahl
> Fix For: 4.1
>
>
> I'd like to suggest a central registry for peerImpl-objects which can be 
> queried by the Persistent class it is responsible for. This would allow 
> reusing and extending the peer objects dynamically as well as giving them 
> some kind of life-cycle.
> The main method would be similar to this:
> {code:java}
> public  BasePeerImpl getPeerFor(Class persistentClass)
> {
> return peerRegistry.get(persistentClass);
> }
> {code}
> I would also like to suggest moving the buildCriteria(obj) method to the 
> RecordMapper or the TableMap class. This will further reduce the amount of 
> code that needs to be generated.
> If the idea is received well, I'll come up with a proposal.



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[jira] [Comment Edited] (TORQUE-343) Implement a central registry for peerImpls like the registry for managers

2016-06-16 Thread Thomas Vandahl (JIRA)

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Thomas Vandahl edited comment on TORQUE-343 at 6/16/16 6:16 PM:


Yes I know about the extensibility. The use case I have in mind is the 
extension of persistent classes in a library like in Fulcrum Security. You  are 
supposed to extend e.g. user objects to match your requirements. Right now, we 
always need to configure the OM class *and* its Peer class to handle this case. 
It would be easier to query the Torque instance for the PeerImpl class for a 
given OM class.

Another use case I found are complex queries. I found it very useful to define 
separate (non-generated) PeerImpl/RecordMapper classes to handle complex joins 
within custom-built objects. In the end I found myself creating those PeerImpl 
object instances over and over again because I had no real place to store them. 
This is normally not necessary as these objects are thread safe.

If BasePeerImpl were abstract, doSelect(obj), doInsert(obj), doUpdate(obj), 
doDelete(obj) and friends could be moved to BasePeerImpl and less code would be 
generated. Perhaps we introduce an abstract class derived from BasePeerImpl as 
a base class to the generated PeerImpl classes to make use of this fact. Then, 
an abstract method buildCriteria() could be placed there.




was (Author: tv):
Yes I know about the extensibility. The use case I have in mind is the 
extension of persistent classes in a library like in Fulcrum Security. You  are 
supposed to extend e.g. user objects to match your requirements. Right now, we 
always need to configure the OM class *and* its Peer class to handle this case. 
It would be easier to query the Torque instance for the PeerImpl class for a 
given OM class.

Another use case I found are complex queries. I found it very useful to define 
separate (non-generated) PeerImpl/RecordMapper classes to handle complex joins 
within custom-built objects. In the end I found myself up creating those 
PeerImpl object instances over and over again because I had no real place to 
store them. This is normally not necessary as these objects are thread safe.

to be continued...



> Implement a central registry for peerImpls like the registry for managers
> -
>
> Key: TORQUE-343
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TORQUE-343
> Project: Torque
>  Issue Type: Improvement
>  Components: Runtime, Templates
>Affects Versions: 4.0
>Reporter: Thomas Vandahl
>Assignee: Thomas Vandahl
> Fix For: 4.1
>
>
> I'd like to suggest a central registry for peerImpl-objects which can be 
> queried by the Persistent class it is responsible for. This would allow 
> reusing and extending the peer objects dynamically as well as giving them 
> some kind of life-cycle.
> The main method would be similar to this:
> {code:java}
> public  BasePeerImpl getPeerFor(Class persistentClass)
> {
> return peerRegistry.get(persistentClass);
> }
> {code}
> I would also like to suggest moving the buildCriteria(obj) method to the 
> RecordMapper or the TableMap class. This will further reduce the amount of 
> code that needs to be generated.
> If the idea is received well, I'll come up with a proposal.



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