[CAY-1983] setter for toManyTarget

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Component/s: Core Library
• Labels: class-generation github-import patch
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: jotpe
• Created: 10/Jan/15 10:55
• Updated: 10/Jan/15 11:17

Description

Sadly I didn't get any feedback this time at developer mailinglist. But this shouldn't contain bug anyway.

This pull request serves a setter method for toManyTargets, which is located in the CayenneDataObject (thank Davids advice). Others and me desire such a functionality in the out-of-the-box class gernation, look at user mailinglist.

In difference to addToManyTarget and removeFromManyTarget this method takes a input Collection<? extends DataObject> and an optional boolean delete parameter (default is false) for deletion
of DataObjects, which relationships were removed.

The method documentation should be more comprehensible, what the method does and what not.

The superclass.vm generates two setter methods per toMany relationship where the relationName is part of the method name. The delete ommited method sets the deletion parameter to false and calls the other method.

I don't know, if it is a the best idea to serve a deletion parameter to prevent for orphaned DataObjects. Maybe there is a better solution.
I didn't implement yet any test classes. This has still to be done.

It would be happy if you would include my code into your project!
Thanks Johannes

Issue Links

• links to: github pull request