[JDO-667] Extend PersistenceManageFactory to return all known entity classes

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: JDO 3 (3.0)
• Fix Version/s: JDO 3.1-rc1
• Component/s: api, specification, tck
• Assignee: Craig L Russell
• Reporter: Marco
• Created: 25/Oct/10 18:38
• Updated: 12/Jun/15 12:46
• Resolved: 19/Oct/12 16:19

Description

JDO 3 now has the ability to declare meta-data programmatically. Part of this feature is the ability to ask the PersistenceManagerFactory via the method getMetadata(java.lang.String) for the meta-data of one single class. But there is no way to list all known classes.

I therefore kindly ask for a new method in PersistenceManagerFactory like this:

Collection<String> getClassesWithMetadata();

Btw., this is Andy's suggestion posted here: http://www.datanucleus.org/servlet/forum/viewthread_thread,6379#33224

I'd greatly appreciate, if this method became a part of JDO 3.1.

Edit 1: I just saw the various overloaded methods getManagedObjects(...) in PersistenceManager - maybe the alternative method name "getManagedClasses()" would be more consistent?