Hello, this functionnality already exists on neogia addons project. On
your OFBiz instant, you install ofbiz-generators addon and the system
generator java class for entitymodel analyse.
If you want try, I download addon manager at this address
http://addons.neogia.org/addonmanager.tar and deploy in your hot-deploy
directory.
Run ofbiz and in admGui install ofbiz-generators
After on your ofbiz home run : ant -f generate.xml
After that you have some new generate class to do in your javafile :
String partyId = party.getPartyId();
or
String partyId = context.get(Party.partyId);
Nicolas
Cimballi a écrit :
Hi David !
As an intermediate user (let's say level 2on 4), to help understand
what kind of user I am, I think it would be very interesting to have
java classes which represents the data model. I don't say one object
per table because maybe it's not the better solution, even if it seems
to be the most logical way to do it. Also, I don't think it's so
important to support another ORM framework, like Hibernate. OFBiz has
its own ORM framework and I am ok with that. The fact about having
java classes is that it would provide an easier way to write code in
an IDE with coe completion, and it would avoid a lot of errors in the
writing of the fields names. It would also provide easy search methods
on fields, for now if you search where you used the field
"description" for an entity X, you can search on the fields name but
can distinghuish on the entity.
On another side, it would be good to have the ORM framework developed
and packaged separatly from whole OFBiz project, to be able to easily
reuse it in other projects. It could be a big boost for the ORM
framework as more developers would be able to use it.
That's my opinion, and thanks for readind it ! ;-)
Cimballi
On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 2:19 AM, David E Jones <d...@me.com> wrote:
If you could change anything about the data tier in OFBiz (basically the Entity
Engine), what would you change?
All comments are welcome. If there is another tool you'd like to see used instead of the Entity
Engine, please describe what you like about it (like "I want to have an Java class for each
table in my database") instead of just mentioning the tool (like "let's use
Hibernate!").
Why am I asking? This topic comes up every once in a while, and it's true that
many suggestions never get enough support to actually happen (or on further
research it is decided that the idea is not tenable), but brainstorming about
them to get ideas in the open is still a great thing. The history of OFBiz is
full of things like this where users and more casual contributors had ideas and
saw possibilities that others, even more involved contributors, totally missed
or never looked at that way. What I think would be fun, and ultimately useful
too, is to keep this mostly to brainstorming and not do too much comparing of
ideas.
BTW, if you want to brainstorm about another tier (ie the Logic or UI tiers) please use
the other threads on those. If you'd like to discuss things that aren't specific to a
tier look for the "General" thread.
-David
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