Hi Romain, See your point. But if we only get the DTO - with what would we call the find? Could even be that the PK is a DTO or encoded / encrypted and needs to go through the mapper first. Maybe we can provide some convenience methods in the base mapper?
On Tue, May 6, 2014 at 7:41 PM, Romain Manni-Bucau <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi guys, > > DTO feature is awesome but doesn't work in update mode since isNew > doesn't use a managed entity. > > When using a mapper we should call find and pass it to the mapper (or > create a new unmanaged entity if not found). So mapper signature > should be Entity toEntity(Entity, DTO) no? > > Otherwise users need to do the find in the mapper...almost eveytime. > > wdyt? > > > Romain Manni-Bucau > Twitter: @rmannibucau > Blog: http://rmannibucau.wordpress.com/ > LinkedIn: http://fr.linkedin.com/in/rmannibucau > Github: https://github.com/rmannibucau >
