>
> If you are using 3.1, we appear to be missing the documentation for
> ExtendedTypes at the bottom of this page:
>
> http://cayenne.apache.org/docs/3.1/cayenne-guide/customizing-cayenne-runtime.html
Unfortunately we are. But luckily it is pretty easy. In your own DI module do
this:
public class CayenneJava8Module implements Module {
@Override
public void configure(Binder binder) {
binder.bindList(Constants.SERVER_DEFAULT_TYPES_LIST)
.add(new MyType1())
.add(new MyType2());
}
}
Andrus
> On Oct 8, 2015, at 9:05 AM, Michael Gentry <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi Hugi,
>
> If you are using 3.1, we appear to be missing the documentation for
> ExtendedTypes at the bottom of this page:
>
> http://cayenne.apache.org/docs/3.1/cayenne-guide/customizing-cayenne-runtime.html
>
> If you are using 3.0 (and it may be the same in 3.1, I've just not done it
> there yet):
>
> http://cayenne.apache.org/docs/3.0/extended-types.html
>
> Once your extended type is registered, you specify it in the Cayenne Model
> as the Java type (that field/column is editable by you -- you aren't
> restricted to the types in the pulldown).
>
>
> On Thu, Oct 8, 2015 at 5:19 AM, Hugi Thordarson <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Thanks for the advice everyone. I think this is the correct way, writing
>> cover methods won't really cut it in my case since I’m going to perform
>> queries using the fields in question.
>> The DB mixes different types for booleans in the database (some are
>> strings, others are proper booleans) but It looks like I can check for the
>> type of the field in the type adaptor before performing my operations, so I
>> should be able to handle this correctly.
>>
>> Do you know how I register my own type adaptor for BooleanType?
>>
>> Cheers,
>> - hugi
>>
>>
>>
>>> On 7. okt. 2015, at 19:08, John Huss <[email protected] <mailto:
>> [email protected]>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Check out the code for org.apache.cayenne.access.types.BooleanType and
>> it's
>>> subclasses. I think you need to create your own extended type to handle
>>> it. Not sure if you can have multiple different BooleanTypes in the same
>>> runtime, but you could have one that detects and switches
>>> behavior dynamically I guess.
>>>
>>> On Wed, Oct 7, 2015 at 12:19 PM Hugi Thordarson <[email protected]
>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi all.
>>>>
>>>> Oh the joys of working with legacy databases… :) I’m now using a
>> database
>>>> that sometimes stores boolean values as a char field with the value ’t’
>> or
>>>> ‘f’ (true or false). Can Cayenne help me map these fields to actual
>>>> booleans in my entities so I don’t have to think about this in my logic?
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> - hugi
>>
>>
