Recent changes to feature-requests

ManyToMany Cardinality

SolarX2 — Tue, 13 Sep 2005 11:16:21 -0000

It would be very usefull if the framework would support
ManyToMany Cardinality. In fact without this
Cardinality it is not to use at all for most applications.

Dependencies inside CVS

Jacques Exelrud — Wed, 13 Apr 2005 17:42:18 -0000

Just a suggestion,

Include in the cvs a folder where we can download all
needed dependencies for AtomsFramework.

With the change in the providers I had to download a
new MySQL provider and ICSharpCode.SharpZipLib. The
other providers I just removed from the project, as I
was not in the mood to look for them.

Today we can search and install them but it's possible
that you use provider x.y and when I download
AtomsFramework the version for this provider is changed
to x.z that does not work with AtomsFramework. To
prevent that the providers you used to test could be
present in a Dependencies folder.

You can choose to provide the Source also but I think
the binary installer is enough

Sort paramater inside AFAssociation

homer111 — Fri, 25 Mar 2005 19:20:39 -0000

Hi, i have the next situation:

an Invoices class with a Lines collection. Lines have a
Number property.

When i retrieve an invoice the Lines collection come
without sorting.
The idea is, inside the AFAssociation or
AFAssociationEntry could you put a Sort=[property]
and a SortOrder parameters and return the collection
ordered by this?

It's a first approach to sorting problem....

Architecture change proposal

Jacques Exelrud — Thu, 03 Mar 2005 12:19:52 -0000

Hi,

I would like to suggest a change on how certain task
are done in the project.

Based on some changes I've made or requested similar
tasks are implemented in various places. In my opinion
they should be located in just one place. One example
is the table alias. This should not be done by each
operation. The table itself should handle it.

Also there is much work that is very similar. We have
Retrieve e Summary that both have the Multi
counterpart. This could be handle with heritage
Retrieve could be a special case of MultiRetrieve. Or,
maybe, Retrieve could not even exist at all, just
MultiRetrieve.

Those are just examples. After those changes are
implemented I think the project will be easier to maintain.

What do you think?

an IsValidToDelete property

homer111 — Sun, 06 Feb 2005 08:36:53 -0000

i wanna suggest to add an IsValidToDelete property to
CPersistentObject, similar to IsValid property but it
returns true if the object was ok to delete and false in
other case.

TIA

Improve many-to-many associations

Richard Banks — Wed, 02 Feb 2005 11:40:43 -0000

Try to see if there is an easier, more transparent way
of handling many to many associations.

ie Determine if the class used to manage association
can be removed.

Separate data providers from framework

Richard Banks — Mon, 31 Jan 2005 00:27:45 -0000

Will make framework more partable and doesn't then mean
all data providers must be present for
compilation/distribution to work.

Rethink auto deletion rules

Richard Banks — Sun, 30 Jan 2005 02:29:38 -0000

Specifically related to 1-M associations and object
removal from the collection (without an explicit delete
being called).

Informix Support

Richard Banks — Sun, 30 Jan 2005 02:28:26 -0000

Add support for informix databases using the ADO.NET
data provider.

Add events for all db parameters

Richard Banks — Wed, 05 Jan 2005 02:38:40 -0000

Allow user supplied details for all database mapping
parameters to provide better run time customisation support