How to extend the BaseDaoImpl class of ORMLite on Android to extend functionality

Question

I\'m wondering whether there\'s a way to extend the BaseDaoImpl class of ORMLite on Android. In my Android project I\'m using several different Dao objects to access the dif

Answer 1

My problem is that I don't know how to create an instance of ExtendedDaoImpl class form the OrmLiteSqliteOpenHelper class...

Nicely worded question. The @DatabaseTable annotation has a field daoClass which can be used to specify the DAO class to construct.

http://ormlite.com/javadoc/ormlite-core/com/j256/ormlite/table/DatabaseTable.html#daoClass()

Here are the docs for the DaoManager.

http://ormlite.com/docs/dao-manager

Your class will need to have a constructor with ConnectionSource and Class arguments.

The solution is not well documented. Let me know if you have any ideas how I can improve the documentation.