[CAY-657] Removing/Deprecating ExtendedType.validateProperty()

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 3.0
• Fix Version/s: 3.0M1, 3.0
• Component/s: Core Library
• Assignee: Andrus Adamchik
• Reporter: Andrus Adamchik
• Created: 20/Sep/06 19:49
• Updated: 08/May/10 15:41
• Resolved: 20/Sep/06 20:12

Description

ExtendedType.validateProperty() is out of place - it is used in CayenneDataObject self validation and requires CDO to access DataNode, which is a bad idea. I found only three standard types that actually implement validation:

CharType (checks for String max length)
BooleanType (checks for NOT NULL)
ByteArrayType (checkes for byte[] max length)

all these validations can be done simply by looking at the DbAttribute, so we can remove it without losing functionality.

I plan to leave the method around as deprecated, but remove invocations from the code.