Re: [Wonder-disc] ERModernMoviesDemo run out of the box behaviour

[David L. <dle...@co...>]

On 2010-08-24, at 12:29 PM, Ramsey Gurley wrote:

> 
> On Aug 24, 2010, at 11:50 AM, Pascal Robert wrote:
> 
>> 
>> Le 2010-08-24 à 11:41, David LeBer a écrit :
>> 
>>> Boy you guys have been busy ;-)
>>> 
>>> ERModernMoviesDemo used to run out of the box. This was enabled by  
>>> a couple of things:
>>> 
>>> 1. The fully populated H2 database was in the Resources folder of  
>>> ERMoviesLogic
>>> 2. The connection dictionary was set in the model (also in the  
>>> Resources folder of ERMoviesLogic).
>>> 
>>> Because the two were relative to one another, the file url for H2  
>>> worked fine.
>>> 
>>> Mike (I think) added full migration support and removed the  
>>> connection dictionary from the model, and then Pascal added  
>>> ERAttachment and ERTaggable frameworks.
>> 
>> It's all my doing, this is me who added migration support, I took  
>> the blame.
> 
> Migrations are good. But I have noticed during the process of working  
> on my WOWODC presentations that the H2 database appears to sometimes  
> have relationships that point to nowhere.
> 
>> 
>>> This broke the relative relationship between the model and the  
>>> embedded db, and with the additional models, made it impossible to  
>>> restore it.
>>> 
>>> If you set the H2 url in the properties file, it treats it as a  
>>> relative to the current working directory (usually the build  
>>> location of the .woa) or as absolute to the root of the drive.
>>> 
>>> To regain the 'run out of the box' behaviour, I'd like to set the  
>>> following properties as defaults in ERModerMoviesDemo:
>>> 
>>> # H2 Connection Dictionary
>>> 
>>> # Puts the Movies H2 Database at the root of the user home
>>> # Disable or change the path as appropriate
>>> dbConnectURLGLOBAL=jdbc:h2:file:~/ERModernMoviesDB/Movies
>>> 
>>> # Migrations
>>> er.migration.migrateAtStartup=true
>>> er.migration.createTablesIfNecessary=true
>>> 
>>> What say you all?
>>> 
>>> ;david
> 
> 
> Will ~ work if someone decides to add unit tests run by Hudson or  
> somesuch?

Is that a realistic concern for a demo app like this? And I would assume that ~ should resolve to the home directory of whatever process was running Hudson.

;david

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