I'm trying to add a new entity using an ODATA Web Service, but the entity's Id field is an auto-incremented field on the server. This means that when I pass the entity for adding, I don't know the Id that will be assigned, and I need some way of retrieving that value after the entity is added.
In looking at the org.restlet.ext.odata.Service class, the addEntity() method posts the new entity, gets a Representation (response), and processes it using an Entry/EntryContentHandler, adding it to a Feed... and then it's all just thrown away (??). It seems like it's doing all the work to allow returning of the entity, but not actually doing so :( I tried waiting until after the addEntity() call returned and then using svc.latestResponse to repeat the same processing (with Entry/EntryContentHandler), but the internal buffer/channels are already consumed (?), so it's not parsing anything and eventually throwing an exception saying "Premature end of file" (since there's no data to parse). It's possible there's a way to "reset" the channels or something, but that seems redundant anyway, since the processing has already been in addEntity(). Is there some way that I'm missing to retrieve the entity that's added from this addEntity() call? If not, perhaps addEntity() could be changed to return the entity object that has been added? Thanks! ------------------------------------------------------ http://restlet.tigris.org/ds/viewMessage.do?dsForumId=4447&dsMessageId=2879321
