[jira] Commented: (CAY-366) Add progress/log view

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Kevin Menard commented on CAY-366:
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Andrus, can you comment on #2?  That code predates me.

> Add progress/log view
> ---------------------
>
>                 Key: CAY-366
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/cayenne/browse/CAY-366
>             Project: Cayenne
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>          Components: CayenneModeler GUI
>    Affects Versions: 1.2 [STABLE]
>         Environment: all
>            Reporter: Øyvind Harboe
>            Assignee: Kevin Menard
>         Attachments: patch-CAY-366.txt
>
>
> From: Andrus Adamchik <andrus@...>
> Reply-To: cayenne-user@...
> To: cayenne-user@...
> Subject: Re: Detailed log/progress view?
> Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2005 10:17:38 -0400  (16:17 CEST)
> Care to file an improvement request in Jira?
> http://objectstyle.org/cayenne/bugs-features.html
> Andrus
> On Sep 2, 2005, at 10:01 AM, Øyvind Harboe wrote:
> > Writeup of some Cayenne experiences follows...
> >
> > I've been using the Cayenne modeler for a couple of projects now  
> > and the
> > thing I miss the most is a detailed log/progress view where I can see
> > everything that was attempted and the g(l)ory details of all
> > exceptions/error messages.
> >
> > - Connecting to a database gives very limited feedback when it fails.
> >   E.g. I had a misconfigured MS SQL server and Cayenne gave me
> >   a "something went wrong" error message, whereas the exception in
> >   my JDBC hello world program contained much more information. When
> >   translating error message to corrective action using Google, *any*
> >   little piece of information, no matter how insignificant it may seem
> >   at the time can be of vital importance :-)
> >
> > - Reengineering an MS SQL database is an atomic user interface  
> > operation
> >   where there are crucial configuration steps that must be in place on
> >   the SQLServer end. E.g. I accidentally created a user without enough
> >   access rights to access the tables I wanted to reverse engineer.  
> > This
> >   didn't give me an error message, but rather nothing was reverse
> >   engineered. Zero feedback can be frustrating when trying to  
> > figure out
> >   whats going wrong.
> >
> > - The Cayenne modeler reports ambiguously "Schema Generation Complete"
> >   after I've clicked "Generate". It puts up this message even if it
> >   has failed. E.g. when I try to generate
> >   a schema which contains a field called "position" w/HSQLDB, it
> >   causes HSQLDB to choke. The exceptions contain enough information to
> >   clue me in on what's wrong, it is just the modeler which seems to
> >   sensor this information.
> >
> > - Weird error messages when switching between databases is business
> >   as usual. The tricky part is when these error messages are not
> >   propagated to the user. There is valuable information tucked away in
> >   ~/.cayenne/modeler.log
> >
> > - Generated columns is supported by Cayenne if the underlying JDBC
> >   driver + database adapter supports it. However, if the system
> >   is somehow misconfigured, the "Generated" flag is silently ignored.
> >   Some sort of feedback here(possibly via the log/progress view),  
> > would
> >   be nice. (I'm currently investigating why this does not work for SQL
> >   server + jDTS, Cayenne 1.2M5).
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Øyvind Harboe
> > http://www.zylin.com
> >
> >
> >

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