Re: Lazy Attributes

Yeah, it's a great idea.

On Thu, Nov 28, 2019 at 6:06 AM Maik Musall <[email protected]> wrote:

> +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
>
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