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Bug 341429 - Enhance mechanism to specify extensions
Summary: Enhance mechanism to specify extensions
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: z_Archived
Classification: Eclipse Foundation
Component: Eclipselink (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified   Edit
Hardware: PC Windows 7
: P4 enhancement (vote)
Target Milestone: ---   Edit
Assignee: Nobody - feel free to take it CLA
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Depends on: 340192
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Reported: 2011-03-30 18:00 EDT by Mitesh Meswani CLA
Modified: 2022-06-09 10:18 EDT (History)
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Description Mitesh Meswani CLA 2011-03-30 18:00:11 EDT 
The current mechanism to specify extension is to use equivalent of following code

ExtensionManager extMgr = serverSession.getDescriptor(entityClass).getExtensionManager();
extMgr.addExtension(fieldName,...); 

As you can see, a descriptor for given entity is required to add extension. Getting to descriptor results in deploy(). It would be nice to have a mechanism that does not trigger deploy. Filling this as a tracking RFE as per discussion with Doug.
Comment 1 Tom Ware CLA 2011-03-31 08:53:52 EDT 
Added to requirements for Flex Column feature
Comment 2 Tom Ware CLA 2011-03-31 13:53:35 EDT 
We will need to discuss what happens if a non-connected session has an extension added that already exists and is simply not visible because we have not connected yet.
Comment 3 Tom Ware CLA 2011-03-31 13:54:38 EDT 
How does the non-connected use case work?  i.e. how would the user add extensions in this case?
Comment 4 Eclipse Webmaster CLA 2022-06-09 10:18:53 EDT 
The Eclipselink project has moved to Github: https://github.com/eclipse-ee4j/eclipselink