[Pride-users] Extension Descriptor and documentation enhancement

[Benjamin R. <fir...@us...>]

Hi,
I'm (still) using PriDE quite extensively, and I stumbled upon some 
issues, which I wanted to communicate.

1) I think it should be noted in the javadoc of SQLExpression that the 
following code is perfectly valid:

   exp = exp.and("some_colname",
                 SQLExpression.Operator.BETWEEN,
                 (Object) new Long[]
                 {pObj.getLeft(), pObj.getRight()});

I think it would be even better, to add an extra and() and or() method 
to avoid this nasty casting of an array to an object.

2) What are ExtensionDescriptors? They are in the code, but mentioned 
nowhere.

3) I think it would be nice, to have some kind of "native" support of 
ORDER BY expressions in PriDE. I need to apply an ORDER BY to statements 
very often in my application. I resolved this, by extending the 
RecordDescriptor's getConstraint() method, and appending the appropriate 
ORDER BY at every invocation. Maybe something like this could go into 
the core of PriDE (I can give you the code, I used).


That's it for now, thanks for providing such a nice and easy framework.

Benjamin