Hi,
I've looked closely at the strategy for making persistent interfaces and concluded that we cannot split out the "getters" from the "setters" in the interface. The spring framework doesn't allow asymmetric get and set methods. In particular, in Employee class, if we have a method void setDepartment(Department), we must have a method Department getDepartment(). It's not allowed to have void setDepartment(Department) and have IDepartment getDepartment(). So I've updated the company package to add the interface classes. I had to remove the extraneous add and remove methods since these are not bean pattern methods.
I've also implemented the DeepEquals.deepCompareFields and EqualityHelper.equals(Object, Object, String). They have allowed me to see where the relationship tests are failing.
Here's a sample of what to expect:
public boolean deepCompareFields(Object other,
EqualityHelper helper) {
IPerson otherPerson = (IPerson)other;
String where = "Person[" + "]";
return
helper.equals(personid, otherPerson.getPersonid(), where + "(personid)") &
helper.equals(firstname, otherPerson.getFirstname(), where + "(firstname)") &
helper.equals(lastname, otherPerson.getLastname(), where + "(lastname)") &
helper.equals(middlename, otherPerson.getMiddlename(), where + "(middlename)") &
helper.equals(birthdate, otherPerson.getBirthdate(), where + "(birthdate)") &
helper.deepEquals(address, otherPerson.getAddress(), where + "(address)") &
helper.deepEquals(phoneNumbers, otherPerson.getPhoneNumbers(), where + "(phoneNumbers)");
}
The tests are failing in navigating from Employee to medicalInsurance. The code is apparently not constraining the query to just instances of medical insurance, so it's retrieving rows that were stored as dental insurance. This causes two distinct behaviors: classCastException while lazy loading the medical insurance field with application identity, and failure to compare while lazy loading the medical insurance field with datastore identity.
I've double checked the metadata and now I'll take a look at the jpox log. Might be something interesting there. And I'll file a JIRA issue.
Craig
Craig Russell
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