Hi all,

I've got two questions

1) Are initial values set with server code propagated to clients when an object is created on the client?

The following url...
http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CAY/Setting+Initial+Values

... suggests using "public void setPersistenceState(int)" for setting initial values when state is NEW. I assume this is the equivalent of EOFs awakeFromInsertion(EOEditingContext).

The above method is not triggered on the client (i.e., it's never called) - so my question is whether (in having this code on the server) these values will be available initially to the client context or not?

2) Object modifications

DataContext has event subjects DID_COMMIT, DID_ROLLBACK, WILL_COMMIT subjects. Great. Where might I find what objects are available via these notifications?

EOF's delegate has editingContextWillSaveChanges(EOEditingContext) where if you throw an exception it will abort the save for the context. How might a listener of the WILL_COMMIT changes event achieve this? Note: this is not a question about validateForSave.

More importantly - what's the best mechanism to (post validation but pre actual commit) of actually making some final adjustments to an object. e.g., something simple such as dateModified field. I know we could put this into validateForSave but we call this many times prior to saving on the server - actually whenever someone makes a change in the gui (in order to highlight what might prevent saving the object).

setPersistentState seems to be only called one time if the state of an object changes. Would the best way of keeping things like dateModified and other calculated fields up to date be to overload writeProperty?

Much appreciated. Thanks.

with regards,
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Lachlan Deck
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