I think a protected findEntity(id) in the mapper can be enough.
Romain Manni-Bucau Twitter: @rmannibucau Blog: http://rmannibucau.wordpress.com/ LinkedIn: http://fr.linkedin.com/in/rmannibucau Github: https://github.com/rmannibucau 2014-05-07 22:29 GMT+02:00 Thomas Hug <thomas....@gmail.com>: > 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 > <rmannibu...@gmail.com>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 >>
