ALalpb·Mar 30, 2012Submission
Ask HN: I made a small ORM for Android that does the job, comments?
2 points · Open discussionahmetb
orman
Java2011–2012
ahmetb / orman
orman
lightweight and minimalist ORM for Java/Android. works with SQLite & MySQL. (not actively maintained)
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lightweight and minimalist ORM for Java/Android. works with SQLite & MySQL. (not actively maintained)
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| Jul 2011 | 2011-07-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2011-08-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Aug 2011 | 2011-08-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2011-09-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 2011 | 2011-09-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2011-10-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 2011 | 2011-10-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2011-11-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nov 2011 | 2011-11-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2011-12-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dec 2011 | 2011-12-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jan 2012 | 2012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2012-02-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Feb 2012 | 2012-02-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2012-03-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 2012 | 2012-03-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2012-04-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
What Hacker News says
2 sourcesI have just written a wiki page [1] on that.
yes it is pretty much similar to OrmLite. I haven't tried OrmLite but now looking at the code examples0.
Orman is much easier to use and less boilerplate code. With OrmLite you have more configration and control but from the code examples I looked at, I can say that Orman makes you write really less code.
For example Orman automatically takes entity class fields as columns and generates from name using it. in OrmLite, you always use annotation and give id for it. Orman automatically generates names.
I looked at many-to-many example they have [2], and they are using an intermediate class UserPost to establish relationship. Orman does not need that, it can infer many to many relationship and creates physical join table automatically.
[1] https://github.com/ahmetalpbalkan/orman/wiki/Why-orman-is-b