Re: GDL2 and object inheritance.

[Manuel Guesdon]

Hi Jim,

On Mon, 18 Apr 2005 18:35:02 -0500 Jim Fowler <jim@uchicago.edu> wrote:

 >| Greetings.
 >| 
 >| First off, I'm extremely impressed with gdl2 and gsweb; I'm now using
 >| it to manage the student pages for a summer math camp.

Good news ! BTW, is it a public site ? Could you give us the url ?


 >| My database schema has tables that inherit from other tables; this
 >| seems to confuse GDL2.  In particular, the subclasses all share a
 >| sequence, but GDL2 doesn't seem know about this (although webobjects
 >| did, as it created the database).  I currently band-aid GDL2 by
 >| changing the code that decides what the sequences should be named
 >| (e.g., "address_seq" is replaced with "contact_seq" in the postgres
 >| adaptor), but I'm wondering if there is a more elegant solution to
 >| this?

I think nobody worked especially on inheritence but it may works or near works.
David's fix for sequences name is coherent with doc.
Please tell us if you find other problems with, if possible test case.


Manuel