Hello Sorry for the late reply. The example helped. I got it working. I generated the data map by using "CreateIfNoSchemaStrategy", and using the optimistic locking setting.
Thanks guys for the help! /Fredrik Den 11 jun 2016 16:20 skrev "Michael Gentry" <blackn...@gmail.com>: > Hi Fredrik, > > If it helps, here is a simple example: > > - https://github.com/mrg/cbe/tree/master/InsertingObjects/MeaningfulPK > > > The more interesting files are the main program and the Cayenne project > files: > > - > > https://github.com/mrg/cbe/blob/master/InsertingObjects/MeaningfulPK/src/main/java/cbe/inserting/MeaningfulPK.java > > - > > https://github.com/mrg/cbe/blob/master/InsertingObjects/MeaningfulPK/src/main/resources/cayenne-cbe-inserting.xml > > - > > https://github.com/mrg/cbe/blob/master/InsertingObjects/MeaningfulPK/src/main/resources/cbe-inserting.map.xml > > > You can download the two XML files and load it up in Cayenne Modeler to > take a look. You need to make sure your meaningful PK is mapped as a Java > attribute and set the value before calling commitChanges(). And to second > what Ari said, don't use meaningful PKs if you can avoid it. > > mrg > > > On Sat, Jun 11, 2016 at 3:19 AM, Fredrik Widengren < > fredrik.wideng...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hello > > I'm kind of new to Cayenne. So sorry if the question bordering to the > > obvious. > > > > I'm trying find out how I can create records where the db does not auto > > generate pk. > > First I got an error where Cayenne complained on that the AUTO_PK table > was > > missing. After creating that, I can create records, but cayenne then > picks > > values from the auto_pk table. So obviously that's not what I want. I > need > > to be able to have a method where I can supply the pk value. > > > > I can't find any documentation on that. > > > > Thanks for any help. > > > > /Fredrik > > >
