SOFA TICKET #2

I am very busy now and sofa is taking some delay so maybe it’s time for you to give me some feedback about it. If you send me a mail next week i’ll get you a copy (’SOFA’ in the subject would be great). It’s not about finding some hard hidden bugs but more about features request and syntax improvement. There’s still a lots of things to do in it and some of the basics features are missing (like cascade delete) so don’t expect to find Hibernate 2 !

arnaud AT matsiya.com

décembre 9, 2008 | Filed Under Air, Non classé | Leave a Comment 

SOFA ticket #1

Unlike hibernate or Rails’ ActiveRecord ORM Sofa isn’t an intrusive framework. Accessing a relational property won’t get you other things that what you’ve put into. Currently it’s possible to populate a property by setting “auto-fetch=’on’” or by doing a “fetch Object.property” in a load request. But we needed a way to do a “just in time” fetching. The best one we’ve found was to mount an object into the SofaManager so then we could execute a new opertation on it. Here’s an example :

private var user:User;
 
var sofaManager:SofaManager = SofaSession.getSession();
 
// We load the user with id 1
user = sofaManager.createQuery("load User where User.id = :id")
		.setIntegerArgument("id", 1)
		.execute();
 
trace(user.pictures); // will output null
 
//beacause we didn't set auto-fetch to 'on' user.pictures isn't set yet.
//we mount the object and fetch its pictures
 
user = sofaManager.mount(user)
		.createQuery("fetch User.pictures")
		.execute();
 
trace(user.pictures); // will output an ArrayCollection

This sample code is equivalent to :

 
user = sofaManager.createQuery("load User where User.id = :id;")
		.append("fetch User.pictures")
		.setIntegerArgument("id", 1)
		.execute();
 

SOFA is currently under hard development and we’re not able to give a release date yet.

novembre 30, 2008 | Filed Under Non classé | Leave a Comment