orm

code comparison between ORM (doctrine) and SQL?

i've read a lot about ORM but wondering if there are side by side comparison examples between an ORM like doctrine and SQL so that you could see what is more easier to maintain? couldn't find such comparisons in google. ...

Hibernate Hql find result size for paginator

Hi, I need to add paginator for my Hibernate application. I applied it to some of my database operations which I perform using Criteria by setting Projection.count().This is working fine. But when I use hql to query, I can't seem to get and efficient method to get the result count. If I do query.list().size() it takes lot of time and I t...

Embed a Python persistance layer into a C++ application - good idea?

say I'm about to write an application with a thin GUI layer, a really fat calculation layer (doing computationally heavy calibrations and other long-running stuff) and fairly simple persistance layer. I'm looking at building the GUI + calculation layer in C++ (using Qt for the gui parts). Now - would it be a crazy idea to build the pers...

using indexer to retrieve Linq to SQL object from datastore

class UserDatastore : IUserDatastore { ... public IUser this[Guid userId] { get { User user = (from u in _dataContext.Users where u.Id == userId select u).FirstOrDefault(); return user; } } ... } One of the d...

How Doctrine saves new related objects

If I create a new Doctrine object, with lots of relations, should I save() these relations before assigning them to newly created object? E.g. $main = new Main(); $child = new Child(); $main->child_rel = $child; // do I need to save the child obj explicitly? $main->save(); I assumed that parent will automatically call cascading saves,...

How is Entity Framework 4's POCO support compared to NHibernate?

Just wondering if anyone has had any experience using Entity Framework 4's POCO support and how it stands up compared to NHibernate. If they're the same, I'd be very interested in making Entity Framework 4 my ORM of choice if only because it would: Support both data first AND object first development Have a robust LINQ provider Be easi...

Configure Hibernate to obtain a fresh connection from a connection pool.

How do I configure Hibernate so that each time I call sessionFactory.openSession() it connects with a new connection from the connection pool? The connection pool is managed by Websphere Application Server and is a JDBC Data Source. Thanks ...

Doctrine Fatal Error - Unknown relation alias

I am getting following error message: Doctrine_Table_Exception: Unknown relation alias shoesTable in /home/public_html/projects/giftshoes/system/database/doctrine/Doctrine/Relation/Parser.php on line 237 I am using doctrine 1.2.2 with Codeigniter My Code is below: (BaseShoes.php and Shoes.php is auto generated) ------------BaseShoes-...

hibernate insert to a collection causes a delete then all the items in the collection to be inserted again

I have a many to may relationship CohortGroup and Employee. Any time I insert an Employee into the CohortGroup hibernate deletes the group from the resolution table and inserts all the members again, plus the new one. Why not just add the new one? The annotation in the Group: @ManyToMany(cascade = { PERSIST, MERGE, REFRESH }) @JoinTab...

Cannot save model due to bad transaction? Django

Trying to save a model in Django admin and I keep getting the error: Transaction managed block ended with pending COMMIT/ROLLBACK I tried restarting both the Django (1.2) and PostgreSQL (8.4) processes but nothing changed. I added "autocommit": True to my database settings but that didn't change anything either. Everything that Google...

user table with javaDB and Hibernate from within grails

let's see if I can ask this in an understandable way... I started with grails and created a domain class called user. As far as I understand, Hibernate is used to map this domain class to the database. This works pretty fine with hsqldb. Now I tried to switch to javaDB and get an error message because the table is called "user" (which ...

Looking for a .Net ORM

I'm looking for a .Net 3.5 ORM framework with a rather unusual set of requirements: I need to create and alter tables at runtime with schemas defined by my end-users. (Obviously, that wouldn't be strongly-typed; I'm looking for something like a DataTable there) I also want regular strongly-typed partial classes for rows in non-dynamic ...

What is the best / proper idiom in django for modifying a field during a .save() where you need to old value?

Hi, say I've got: class LogModel(models.Model): message = models.CharField(max_length=512) class Assignment(models.Model): someperson = models.ForeignKey(SomeOtherModel) def save(self, *args, **kwargs): super(Assignment, self).save() old_person = #????? LogModel(message="%s is no longer assigned to ...

Selecting by ID in Castle ActiveRecord

How can I write a criteria to return all Orders that belong to a specific User? public class User { [PrimaryKey] public virtual int Id { get; set; } } public class Order { [PrimaryKey] public virtual int Id { get; set; } [BelongsTo("UserId")] public virtual User User { get; set; } } return ActiveRecordMediator<Order>.Fin...

MVC without ORM is not real MVC?

at the moment im integrating ORM (doctrine) into a MVC framework (codeigniter). then it hit me that this was the obvious way of setting up a MVC: the controller calls the models that are representing database tables. look at this picture: MVC + ORM then i wondered, how can a MVC without ORM be real MVC? cause then the models are not...

best way to create tables with ORM?

assume that i start coding an application from scratch, is the best way to create tables when using an ORM (doctrine), to manually create tables in mysql and then generate models from the tables, or is it the other way around, that is to create the models in php and then generate tables from models? and if i already have a database, wil...

retrieving object information with Doctrine

i want to fetch information from the database using objects. i really like this approach cause this is more OOP: $user = Doctrine_Core::getTable('User')->find(1); echo $user->Email['address']; echo $user->Phonenumbers[0]->phonenumber; rather than: $q = Doctrine_Query::create() ->from('User u') ->leftJoin('u.Email e') ->l...

doctrine reference?

i've found one cheat sheet for doctrine: cheat sheet but it doesn't list all methods for Doctrine_Record, Doctrine_Core, Doctrine_Query etc. i wonder if there is a such reference? Would be very helpful. ...

Using NHibernate's HQL to make a query with multiple inner joins

The problem here consists of translating a statement written in LINQ to SQL syntax into the equivalent for NHibernate. The LINQ to SQL code looks like so: var whatevervar = from threads in context.THREADs join threadposts in context.THREADPOSTs on threads.thread_id equals threadposts...

JPA 2.0, hiberante 3.5, jars & persistence.xml location

I'm building a desktop application using hibernate 3.5 & JPA 2.0. I have 2 jars, the lib, which defines every entity and DAO, packages looks like this : org.my.package.models org.my.package.models.dao org.my.package.models.utils In org.my.package.utils I defined my hibernate utility class for getting EM & EMF instances, which mean...