You can use mapper by itself.  There's a dependency on lift webkit I
believe.  There might be some other issues, as i don't if anyone is using it
that way.
As for the number, are you talking about a userId?  Why would you think you
can't set an arbitrary field in Mapper?


On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 11:11 AM, Julian Backes
<[email protected]>wrote:

> Does really nobody know something about my problem? Something like "this is
> not possible at the moment" is also ok... :-)
>
> Am 03.01.10 22:46, schrieb Julian Backes:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have the following problem:
>> For simplicity, assume I want to store users in the database. Before
>> storing a user the first time in the database (using someNewUser.save),
>> I want to create a special unique number for this user (which we need in
>> our company) and store this number together with the new user. This
>> number is based on several values and some of them need to be read from
>> the database.
>> My first idea was to add something to beforeCreate in the meta object
>> but I'm not sure how to do the computation of the number together with
>> the save operation in one transaction (which is absolutely necessary)?
>> And are there better places to do this?
>> I read something about putting the whole request in one transaction but
>> this is not what I want. I'm currently only using the Mapper stuff
>> (because I want a pure scala ORM) and not the whole Lift framework.
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>> Julian
>>
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