Hi Michael, the documentation was apparently changed for 4.0 in 2015 to reflect the current behaviour:
https://github.com/apache/cayenne/commit/5bb12cd36f0d87e3b217cdc20c22a0f6dc9613f3#diff-5b9a57288e30ef9855d80a63a812ec4f Cheers, - hugi > On 1. mar. 2017, at 14:59, Michael Gentry <blackn...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi Hugi, > > If validateForInsert() is being called before PrePersist, we have a > disconnect between the documentation and the behavior you are seeing: > > "PrePersist: right before a new object is committed, inside > ObjectContext.commitChanges() and ObjectContext.commitChangesToParent() > (and prior to validateForInsert())." > > What version of Cayenne are you using? I wonder if something has changed > or if the documentation is just wrong. > > Thanks, > > mrg > > > > On Wed, Mar 1, 2017 at 6:18 AM, Hugi Thordarson <h...@godurkodi.is> wrote: > >> Hi all, >> I have some logic in a Listener that uses @PrePersist to populate the >> value of a required attribute before committing changes. Turns out this >> doesn’t work, since Cayenne invokes validateForInsert() before running >> @PrePersist. >> >> Any suggestions for where I can invoke logic populates required values >> before validation? >> >> Cheers, >> - hugi
