[CAY-400] Support for user properties of DataMap objects.

• Type: Improvement
• Status: In Progress
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 3.0
• Component/s: Core Library, Modeler
• Assignee: Ari Maniatis
• Reporter: Andrus Adamchik
• Created: 07/Nov/05 13:25
• Updated: 01/Jun/11 15:29

Description

We need to support user defined properties attached to

• Entities
• Attributes
• Relationships

(Obj and Db). This feature is similar to JDK 1.5 annotations.

Basic support:

• allow to enter string key/value pairs in the Modeler and save them in XML.
• Just like with JVM annotations implement some logic to load annotations conditionally.

Ideas for using this info in Cayenne:

• Attach DB comments on reverse-engineer
• Use certain keys to generate Javadocs during class generation
• Use certain keys to generate JDK 1.5 annotations during class generation.

Issue Links

• is related to: CAY-659 Comments / Descriptions for Attributes