On Tuesday 02 Mar 2010 20:54:18 Ralph Schindler wrote:
> Hey all,
> 
>  From a code maintenance standpoint, the patch for this issue was
> categorized as a "bug".  This means the expected behavior was broken,
> and is subject to being fixed in any release- Major, Minor, and even
> Mini.  Issue tracker improvements and feature requests can be included
> in Minor releases, and Major proposal style features at Minor and Major
> releases as well (Major including any BC breaks).
> 
> I'd argue that your use case was outside of any of the intended use
> cases for the class, strictly speaking: you were actually RELYING on
> buggy behavior.
> 
> Row objects should only contain information that the row is actually
> modeling.  That means that each row object should have the exact number
> and type of fields that the database tables has that it originated from.
> 
> The safest way of getting any intersection row objects (and data) would
> be to use getDependentRowset() on that intersection table.  This will
> produce a working Row object that you can get the information from, and
> update the data (if needed).
> 
> I will discuss this with the team.
> 
> -ralph

Hi Ralph,
Thanks for your official reply. I'd like to hear the outcome. For me I can 
rewrite my code because it occurs only once. Others have bigger problems 
having multiple instances relying on this "bug".

Regards, Jurian
-- 
Jurian Sluiman
CTO Soflomo V.O.F.
http://soflomo.com

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