this by no means is a complete explanation...just a quick usable one. For a complete explanation you might want to check out Undersun Consulting's Advanced Framework Training ;)
--- "Alex D. Fleming" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I am looking to have answer for some simple > questions : (I will be thankful if anybody of you > could help me ). > > The questions are related to the Mini Language/ > Simple Methods : > > 1) What's the Difference in : > <entity-one entity-name="Product" > value-name="product" auto-field-map="true"/> > & > <make-value value-name="lookupPKMap" > entity-name="Product"/> > <entity-one> is a search by primary key productId will need to be somewhere in the context (i'm not sure if it needs to be the field parameters.productId or simply productId) instead of using auto-field-map="true" you may find it easier as you're getting used to the minilang to be specific and do the following <entity-one ...> <field-map field-name="" value="" (or env-name=""/> </entity-one> just remember that you must specify the complete primary key <make-value> returns an empty generic entity of the entity you specify. This makes it much easier (less error prone) to do a create, store, remove than does creating the map by hand. > 2) What's the Difference in : > <if-compare> & <if-compare-field> > <if-compare> will compare the field to the value specified in the value="" <if-compare-field> will compare the field to another field. > 3) What's the difference in the following two > sentence : > <field-to-field field-name="productId" > to-field-name="productIdToCheck"/> > & > <set field="productId" value="productIdToCheck"/> > <field-to-field I believe has been deprecated in usage in favor of <set> however notice your value="productIdToCheck" is the string literal "productIdToCheck" and not the field productIdToCheck to make them equivalent statements, it should be <set field="productId" from-field="productIdToCheck"/> > It may be some stupid questions but I will feel > happy if somebody clears my doughts. > Hope that helped > > --------------------------------- > Yahoo! Messenger with Voice. Make PC-to-Phone Calls > to the US (and 30+ countries) for 2ยข/min or less.
