Thanks, for getting back. Also I realized that I wrote directly to you instead of the group. The types system was designed with that in mind, you should use it instead of entity getters and setters. I hope to post a few examples on that when I get more time. Maybe you can help us writing that specific type class and document it, that would be of great help!
On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 4:04 PM, Alberto Pagliarini <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks José for the answer. > > Let me know what you decide and if I can help. > Anyway my example is born because I often need to save data in different > format from original (serialize/unserialize, json_encode, json_decode, > etc..) and I think would be cleaver do it with setter and getter. > > For serialize and json maybe I could use custom Type > http://book.cakephp.org/3.0/en/orm/database-basics.html#adding-custom-types > but > I need to study how it works and for other data manipulation (as in example > above) define a custom type would be unsuitable. > > cheers > alberto > > > 2014-02-14 14:48 GMT+01:00 José Lorenzo <[email protected]>: > >> I need to think about this for a bit. The only reason that people seem to >> be wanting getters in the entity is for doing presentational formatting on >> the same properties as the database, which was not my original intention. >> I'll look into a solution for this so it is more intuitive. >> >> On Friday, February 14, 2014 11:02:39 AM UTC+1, bato wrote: >>> >>> Il giorno venerdì 14 febbraio 2014 01:57:53 UTC+1, mark_story ha scritto: >>>> >>>> One more thing. The orm will use the getter functions when preparing >>>> the data to be saved. Since your getter reverses te setter. This might be >>>> the source of your problem. >>>> >>>> >>>> Yes, commenting the getter the save works as expected. >>> But how can I do what I was trying to do? I would expect that saving use >>> setter but not getter so as I can save some modified data and retireve >>> later in the original format. >>> I.e. >>> >>> saving data >>> original data = 'name surname' => save (use setter) => save on db >>> 'name,surname' >>> >>> retrieving data >>> saved data on db 'name,surname' => find (use getter) => original data >>> 'name surname' >>> >>> I know I could obtain the same results modifing original data before >>> saving it but I would know if there is a method using ORM properties. >>> >>> thanks for your great work >>> alberto >>> >>> > > > -- > ------ bato ------- > > -- Like Us on FaceBook https://www.facebook.com/CakePHP Find us on Twitter http://twitter.com/CakePHP --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CakePHP" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
