Interesting to see the comments coming from a hibernate + cayenne user
(me) vs. an EOF + cayenne user (Mike). :)
Just wanted to follow up on the question and comment below:
Cayenne doesn't really have this, either. (Neither does EOF.) You
have to commit to have the PKs assigned (unless you assign them
yourself). There might be a temporary ID, but it sounds like you are
asking about something more permanent that can be looked up later.
Those are my main disagreements with the way I have to work with
JPA/Hibernate... will switching to
Cayenne help me with those? And if it works... here is a crazy
idea... what
if you guys developed a wrapper that could work on top of any JPA
provider
to offer a higher level EOF like API ?
Regards,
Francisco
It's true that there is no /long term/ temporary pk; you have to
commit for the db for that.
But the following also holds:
MyPersistentObj obj = context.newObject(MyPersistentObj.class);
assert obj.getObjectId() != null
MyPersistentObj obj2 = context.newObject(MyPersistentObj.class);
assert !obj.getObjectId().equals(obj2.getObjectId());
which is the critical piece of information that, I think, Francisco
was looking for.
In the hibernate world, your object is "new" if the object's id is null.
Otherwise, it's persisted in the database w/ a pk. There is no "in
between" state.
Robert
