Re: Lazy Attributes

+1 sounds very useful to simplify the data model here and there

> Am 27.11.2019 um 13:06 schrieb Michael Gentry <[email protected]>:
> 
> I just happened across an article on Hibernate which talks about lazy
> attributes.  (A recent addition, I think.)  This essentially allows you to
> flag an attribute/column as lazy and it'll be excluded from the original
> SELECT query, but if you call the getter it will then fetch it in.  This is
> convenient for BLOB-type data that might happen to be in a main table with
> other attributes (such as MIME types, file sizes, file names, etc).
> 
> Thoughts on maybe adding this feature to Cayenne?  I can imagine there'd be
> a "Lazy" column in Cayenne Modeler for the attributes to control/identify
> them.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> mrg