It's a small effort to create a custom entity template to generate any kind of entity class you want, for instance for a DTO. You can copy a lot of stuff right out of the regular templates if you want.
Then you can use maven or ant to easily regenerate those classes the same way CayenneModeler does without having to change the custom template selections all the time. On Tue, Sep 17, 2019 at 1:49 PM Tony Giaccone <[email protected]> wrote: > So typically I create a Data Transfer Object to return values across the > wire that I have fetched and copy attributes from my model object to the > DTO. This gets tedious quickly. I wondered if there's not another way > that people are doing this, because this seems entirely too painful. > > However, if* this is* what most people do, then perhaps a change could be > made to the modeler, that would all you to create automatically a set of > DTO objects with when you generate the model objects. I recognize that > this would be a rather significant effort and I'm guessing that there's > probably a better way, but I'm not aware of what it is. > > Any suggestions? > > > Tony Giaccone >
