DevForce Community Forum : Custom Entity Server http://www.ideablade.com/forum/ This is an XML content feed of; DevForce Community Forum : DevForce 2010 : Custom Entity Server Mon, 13 Apr 2026 15:56:03 -700 Tue, 13 Jul 2010 20:38:58 -700 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Web Wiz Forums 9.69 360 www.ideablade.com/forum/RSS_post_feed.asp?TID=1958 DevForce Community Forum http://www.ideablade.com/forum/forum_images/IdeaBlade_logo_tm.png http://www.ideablade.com/forum/ Custom Entity Server : Yes, the link above was in response... http://www.ideablade.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=1958&PID=7623#7623 Author: ting
Subject: 1958
Posted: 13-Jul-2010 at 8:38pm

Yes, the link above was in response to your statement about storing test data.
 
DevForce works the best when the primary datastore is a relational database.  We provide POCO integration to allow people to bring in other adjunct data and have it managed in the same way as a DevForce Entity, but if that is your primary use case, quite a bit of the DevForce value is lost.  Do I understand correctly that you want to have the same "schema" hosted by a database sometimes, and by an XML file other times, and you want to be able to toggle between the two?
 
]]> Tue, 13 Jul 2010 20:38:58 -700 http://www.ideablade.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=1958&PID=7623#7623 Custom Entity Server : If I went with a POCO approach,... http://www.ideablade.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=1958&PID=7608#7608 Author: raustring
Subject: 1958
Posted: 13-Jul-2010 at 8:40am

If I went with a POCO approach, how do I turn off the database access on the server? I would like to generate the 'entity manager' using a database, since I still want the option of running from a database as well and I want the same model objects whether or not I'm running from a database or XML. I can see from your examples and documentation of how the database update logic can be intercepted for saving, but I don't see any method to 'turn off' the database read access on the server or where the 'entity manager' on the server can be initially loaded with the data from the XML files.

The link that you referred me to above seems to imply running in a disconnected fashion and saving and loading the 'entity manager' on the client with saved data. I still need communication between the client and the server, but would like to have the option of using XML to store my data on the server.

Sorry for the basic questions, but I'm new to your product and still trying to understand if I can use it for my purposes.]]> Tue, 13 Jul 2010 08:40:10 -700 http://www.ideablade.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=1958&PID=7608#7608 Custom Entity Server : I'm don't think creating... http://www.ideablade.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=1958&PID=7600#7600 Author: ting
Subject: 1958
Posted: 12-Jul-2010 at 7:38pm

I'm don't think creating your own Entity Server is going to be the right solution.  Our POCO functionality is designed to allow you to work with data from non-database storage.  For test entities, you can save EntityManager's cache state to a file, so that you can do testing without a database.  This post has some more information about that:
http://www.ideablade.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=1688
 
]]> Mon, 12 Jul 2010 19:38:38 -700 http://www.ideablade.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=1958&PID=7600#7600 Custom Entity Server : Is it possible to write a custom... http://www.ideablade.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=1958&PID=7589#7589 Author: raustring
Subject: 1958
Posted: 11-Jul-2010 at 6:24am

Is it possible to write a custom 'entity server'? If so, do you have an example that shows how to do this? I'm not sure if creating a custom entity server is the right approach but I essentially would like to create my 'entity manager' using a database (i.e. as is done today in your examples), but have the option of populating those entities from something other than a database (e.g. XML). This would allow the end user of my application to store there data in either a database or XML files. Using XML to store data would be used in scenarios where there is a relatively small amount of data or simply to store test data.]]> Sun, 11 Jul 2010 06:24:20 -700 http://www.ideablade.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=1958&PID=7589#7589