Ok, this is fixed - client side should now work as before.

I am also looking into making one-way to-many client relationships updateable, just like they are on the server.

Andrus


On Aug 15, 2007, at 8:18 AM, Andrus Adamchik wrote:

Hmm... this may be a bug in implementation. "Runtime" reverse relationships (i.e. the relationships that Cayenne created on the fly) would only work on CayenneDataObjects that can store arbitrary stuff in the internal values map. Client side objects that use Java fields to store properties (and do not use enhancement like JPA POJOs) definitely can't take advantage of this feature (although I suspect it may still work when the data crosses back to the server). So I'll need to exclude "runtime" relationships from the client schema. Let me work on that.

Andrus


On Aug 15, 2007, at 1:53 AM, Marcin Skladaniec wrote:
Hello
I think recently the requirement every relationship to be defined both ways was revoked.
I found few problems with it:

we have defined (to many, read only):
<obj-relationship name="sessions" source="Course" target="Session" deleteRule="Nullify" db-relationship-path="CourseClasses.sessions"/>

it looks like cayenne creates fake relationship called runtimeRelationship0 which fails during runtime :

[java] 14:36:38,192 [btpool0-1 ] INFO org.apache.cayenne.remote.service.BaseRemoteService :157 - error processing message
     [java] java.lang.NoSuchFieldException: runtimeRelationship0
     [java]     at java.lang.Class.getDeclaredField(Class.java:1854)
[java] at org.apache.cayenne.reflect.FieldAccessor.lookupFieldInHierarchy (FieldAccessor.java:154) [java] at org.apache.cayenne.reflect.FieldAccessor.lookupFieldInHierarchy (FieldAccessor.java:163) [java] at org.apache.cayenne.reflect.FieldAccessor.lookupFieldInHierarchy (FieldAccessor.java:163) [java] at org.apache.cayenne.reflect.FieldAccessor.prepareField (FieldAccessor.java:101) [java] at org.apache.cayenne.reflect.FieldAccessor.<init> (FieldAccessor.java:50) [java] at org.apache.cayenne.reflect.PersistentDescriptorFactory.createAccessor (PersistentDescriptorFactory.java:191) [java] at org.apache.cayenne.reflect.valueholder.ValueHolderDescriptorFactory.c reateToOneProperty(ValueHolderDescriptorFactory.java:70) [java] at org.apache.cayenne.reflect.PersistentDescriptorFactory.getDescriptor( PersistentDescriptorFactory.java:99) [java] at org.apache.cayenne.reflect.PersistentDescriptorFactory.getDescriptor( PersistentDescriptorFactory.java:51) [java] at org.apache.cayenne.reflect.ClassDescriptorMap.createDescriptor (ClassDescriptorMap.java:122)


as a workaround a reverse relationship can be created (to one, read only) : <obj-relationship name="course" source="Session" target="Course" db-relationship-path="courseClass.course"/>

It does work ok than, with a small problem. We have also customised the dotemplates (templates to generate the cayenne classes). within them we are using loop to create a generic setValueForKey (key, value) method for classes on client (this is an equivalent of writeProperty(key, value) on server):

#foreach( $rel in ${objEntity.DeclaredRelationships})
#if (!$rel.ToMany)
if (${stringUtils.capitalizedAsConstant($rel.Name)} _PROPERTY.equals(key)) { set${stringUtils.capitalized($rel.Name)} ( (${importUtils.formatJavaType ($rel.TargetEntity.ClientClassName)}) value); return; }
#end
#end

but we don't want to iterate through the "read-only" relationships.
Any hint how to do that ?

Marcin




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