[CAY-855] Add DataContext.objectFromDataRow variety for generic classes

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 3.0
• Fix Version/s: 3.0M2, 3.0
• Component/s: Core Library
• Assignee: Andrus Adamchik
• Reporter: Andrus Adamchik
• Created: 28/Aug/07 17:42
• Updated: 08/May/10 11:17
• Resolved: 28/Aug/07 18:07

Description

generic classes differ from concrete mapped classes in that the user needs to pass entity name instead of the java.lang.Class to most of the context methods:

http://cayenne.apache.org/doc/generic-persistent-class.html

One important method that is missing is converting a data row to an instance of generic class. So we need:

DataContext.objectFromDataRow(String, DataRow, boolean)

This is not critical as there is a workaround that is just more verbose: objectsFromDataRows(ObjEntity,List,boolean, boolean). But still nice to have (for those who care about generic objects)