I currently need to add an extra field to a messageboard message that needs to be displayed in a forum
The most obvious path to take, i guess, would be to define an expando property and use that. The problem is that retrieving the expando in a list of message board messages will result in 1 + n queries making things quite slow , at least the first time untill they are cached
Another option I can think of would be to define an object called MBMessageExtraFields that are associated with the messages and can be retrieved in one go, but this is a fair chunk of work to do for something so trivial
Finally i could hack liferay's service.xml file add the file and rebuild the service. But hacking the portal is a definite nono
So, I am content with neither of the solutions, Does anyone have any suggestions they would like to add ?
