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EclipseLinkTypeMappingOptions
Contents
Functional Specification: Dali Support for new EclipseLink type mapping options
bug 240038 - ReadOnly support
bug 240042 - Customizer support
bug 240036 - ChangeTracking support
bug 240035 - CopyPolicy support
Document History
| Date | Author | Version Description & Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 7-8-2008 | Karen Butzke | Draft |
Project overview
This feature is about adding the attribute mapping converter annotations supported by the EclipseLink JPA extension.
Goals:
- Add JPA Details view widgets for ReadOnly annotation and read-only eclipselink-orm.xml element
- Add JPA Details view widgets for Customizer annotation and customizer eclipselink-orm.xml element
- Add JPA Details view widgets for ChangeTracking annotation and read-only eclipselink-orm.xml element
- Add JPA Details view widgets for CopyPolicy, CloneCopyPolicy, InstantiationCopyPolicy annotations and copy-policy, clone-copy-policy, and instantiation-copy-policy eclipselink-orm.xml elements
- Provide validation for these settings
Concepts
EclipseLink ReadOnly documentation
EclipseLink Customizer documentation
EclipseLink ChangeTracking documentation
EclipseLink CopyPolicy documentation
Requirements / Functionality
ReadOnly
- @ReadOnly annotation supported on Entity and MappedSuperclass
- Corresponding eclipselink-orm.xml element is read-only
- Only define Read-Only on the root of the inheritance hierarchy, validation error if set on subclass
Entity Read-Only check box
MappedSuperclass Read-Only check box
Customizer
- @Customizer annotation supported on
ChangeTracking
- @ChangeTracking annotation supported on
Copying
- @CopyPolicy, @CloneCopyPolicy, @InstatntiationCopyPolicy annotations supported on
API
Issues
This section lists the open issues that are still pending that must be decided prior to fully implementing this project's requirements.
| Issue # | Owner | Description / Notes | Decision |
|---|---|---|---|
Future Considerations
During the research for this project the following items were identified as out of scope but are captured here as potential future enhancements. If agreed upon during the review process these should be logged in the bug system.