Pairity/MILESTONES.md

Milestones

Table of Contents

1. Milestone 1: Core DTO/DAO & Persistence
2. Milestone 2: Basic Relations & Eager Loading
3. Milestone 3: Attribute Accessors/Mutators & Custom Casters
4. Milestone 4: Unit of Work & Identity Map
5. Milestone 5: Pagination & Query Scopes
6. Milestone 6: Event System
7. Milestone 7: Performance Knobs
8. Milestone 8: Road Ahead [x]

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Milestone 1: Core DTO/DAO & Persistence

• Basic AbstractDto and AbstractDao
• CRUD operations (Insert, Update, Delete, Find)
• Schema metadata (Casts, Timestamps, Soft Deletes)
• Dynamic DAO methods
• Basic SQL and SQLite support

Milestone 2: Basic Relations & Eager Loading

• hasOne, hasMany, belongsTo
• Batched eager loading (IN lookup)
• Join-based eager loading (SQL)
• Nested eager loading (dot notation)
• belongsToMany and Pivot Helpers

Milestone 3: Attribute Accessors/Mutators & Custom Casters

• DTO accessors and mutators
• Pluggable per-column custom casters
• Casting integration with hydration and storage

Milestone 4: Unit of Work & Identity Map

• Identity Map implementation
• Deferred mutations (updates/deletes)
• Transactional/Atomic commits
• Relation-aware delete cascades
• Optimistic Locking (SQL & Mongo)

Milestone 5: Pagination & Query Scopes

• paginate and simplePaginate for SQL and Mongo
• Ad-hoc and Named Query Scopes

Milestone 6: Event System

• Dispatcher and Subscriber interfaces
• DAO lifecycle events
• Unit of Work commit events

Milestone 7: Performance Knobs

• PDO prepared-statement cache
• Query timing hooks
• Eager loader IN-batching
• Metadata memoization

Milestone 8: Road Ahead [x]

• Broader Schema Builder ALTER coverage
• More dialect nuances for SQL Server/Oracle
• Enhanced CLI commands
• Caching layer
• Production-ready MongoDB adapter refinements
• Documentation and expanded examples