Hi Andrus,
My problem is stemming from not being able to get the defaults set in the
first place. When I make a new object and do not set any of the objects
properties I get an insert something like this going on....
INSERT INTO tablename(property1, property2, property3) VALUES(NULL, NULL,
NULL)
of course Cayenne uses 'bind'.
what I would like is for the insert to be like this...
INSERT INTO tablename() VALUES()
or this also would work...
INSERT INTO tablename(property1,property2,property3) VALUES(DEFAULT, DEFAULT,
DEFAULT)
DEFAULT is a key word in MySQL that sets the field to the columns default
value.
So, I am basically trying to figure out how to have Cayenne either substitute
DEFAULT for all NULLs, omit the property on INSERT if it is NULL, or my plan
for a work around was to retrieve the default value metadata from the MySQL
server and then set all the fields to their default values using a util method
like this ( this is mostly pseudocode )
public DataObject SetDefaultsForDataObject(DataObject obj)
{
Results = Execute("SHOW columns FROM obj.tablename");
while(Results.next())
{
field = Results.get("Field");
default = Results.get("Default");
obj.setProperty(field,default);
}
return obj;
}
Is there anyway to not put the properties in the INSERT statement if they are
NULL, that is how MySQL knows to do the default unless you specify DEFAULT
keyword.
Any additional help on this would be very appreciated!
Thanks again,
Adam
Andrus Adamchik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Syncing DB defaults with entities is indeed a painful exercise as JDBC
provides no callback mechanism to let the app know which defaults were
set. Here is one more brute force mechanism to achieve that -
invalidate all newly inserted objects. E.g., using 3.0 API:
List newObjects = context.newObjects();
context.commitChanges();
context.performGenericQuery(new RefreshQuery(newObjects));
Andrus
On Dec 22, 2007, at 11:57 PM, Aristedes Maniatis wrote:
>
> On 23/12/2007, at 5:30 AM, Adam Yocum wrote:
>
>> 'SHOW columns FROM tablename'
>
> This might be a good starting point:
>
> http://cayenne.apache.org/doc/api/org/apache/cayenne/map/ObjEntity.html#getAttributes()
>
> Ari Maniatis
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