[Cayenne-dev] Random idea: comments

Hi Christian,

We have a long-open JIRA to support JavaDocs. It just hasn't been
implemented yet. A similar comment could also be stuffed in the DB
"comment", too. Having it as a column in the Modeler, though, is
probably not too workable as a decent comment is bound to be much
longer than you can fit in a small cell, so we'd have to do something
different.

mrg

On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 5:36 AM, Christian Grobmeier
wrote:

Actually the discussion specifically about modeling DB comments (whether with direct correspondence to javadocs or not) was also a hot topic some years ago on this list. IIRC one of the problems was that JDBC metadata won't let us access the comments during reverse engineering. I am currently neutral to the idea. But let's discuss the details if others find it useful.

Javadocs was a separate thing. Also, let's start looking at what's involved.

Cheers,
Andrus

Yes, there was a Jira and even some code attached to it (written by an intern at my company). That was to create generate Info fields attached to tables, attributes and relations in the modeler and accessible at runtime or by cgen.

It would be really useful, but I can't find the task.

Ari

I think is this one[1]. It would be nice to be able add a comment or
description for some elements in the modeler.


Regards,

Gilberto
[1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CAY-56

Ah, and this one https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CAY-400 is the general "user attributes" task which has some code. But that code needed a fair bit of cleaning up.

Ari