[jira] [Created] (CAY-1849) Smart handling of listener lifecycle annotation with no entity filter

["Andrus Adamchik (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Andrus Adamchik created CAY-1849:
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             Summary: Smart handling of listener lifecycle annotation with no entity filter
                 Key: CAY-1849
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CAY-1849
             Project: Cayenne
          Issue Type: Improvement
            Reporter: Andrus Adamchik
            Assignee: Andrus Adamchik
             Fix For: 3.2M2


Currently when an annotation on listener has no 'value' or 'entityAnnotations' parameters, Cayenne fails with an Exception. We should be smarter about this. We should check the type of the entity argument and use the type to match against entities. E.g. Persistent or DataObject will match all entities, MyEntityClass will match just this one entity. 

Potentially this could be somewhat expensive to process (as we'll be analyzing full class hierarchies, matching them against EntityResolver), but maybe we can make it fairly performant by caching inheritance hierarchies in structures similar to EntityInheritanceTree.

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