Hi Linda, all,
Linda DeMichiel, am 9 Dec 2012 hast Du um 15:06 zum Thema "[jsr338-
experts] Re: Proposal for EntityGraphs, f" geschrieben :
>
>
> On 12/7/2012 12:01 PM, Linda DeMichiel wrote:
> > Hi Ollie,
> >
> > On 12/7/2012 10:29 AM, Oliver Gierke wrote:
> >> Am 07.12.2012 um 18:57 schrieb Gordon Yorke<gordon.yorke_at_oracle.com>:
> >>
> >>> It was removed from an earlier draft version to reduce the clutter in the NamedEntityManager annotation as
> >>> NamedAttributeNode serves the same purpose. It also eliminates any confusion about when to use the String[] vs the
> >>> NamedAttributeNode[] and how they interact.
> >>> --Gordon
> >>
> >> I guess you mean NamedEntityGraph, right? I don't think an additional simple attribute is clutter actually. Also, I
> >> can't see any confusion as the String[] can easily be evaluated like an @NamedAttributeNode with a plain name
> >> attribute and would be added to other @NamedAttributeNode declarations. Simple rule, no corner cases. Especially in
> >> scenarios where you'd simply list a couple of Strings this would actually *reduce* clutter and complexity on the
> >> definition side. Make the simple things simple, complex things possible.
> >>
> >> The examples you showed were referring to a few properties only and already consumed quite a bit of space. Assuming
> >> real world scenarios, this overhead would even grow beyond that. It's yet another annotation per property to refer to.
> >> I'd actually would be interested in seeing an XML definition example because it feels like the annotation based
> >> definition might actually be more verbose than the XML equivalent.
> >>
> >> I strongly recommend to favor conciseness on the definition / user side of things over a few more lines of
> >> implementation code. Parts of the spec already do a suboptimal job in this regard and I think we do the users and the
> >> spec a favor if we make it as usable as possible.
> >>
> >
> > While I sympathize with your ease-of-use argument here, I do think that having 3 ways of specifying
> > attributes in NamedEntityGraph would be a bit much.
> >
>
> OK, I've been mulling this over some more and I have to admit I am really torn about this issue in
> view of Ollie's verbosity argument.
>
> Can we have some more feedback on this point, please?
I could imagine that Ollie's proposed string attributes might become as
useful as the string-based methods in the Criteria API.
Just my Euro 0.02
Rainer
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