The iterator has it's own validate method which you can call directly if you need to. You don't have to rely on the parent record's validate() method.

On 11/8/06, Mark Stanton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Guys can I get some more responses on this please. It's becoming
increasingly urgent and is a major problem for us.

On 11/8/06, Mark Stanton <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:
> Thanks for the response Qasim - however we are in a position where we
> need to validate the new state of the iterator before we can save.
>
> On 11/7/06, Qasim Rasheed < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Mark,
> >
> > I recently encountered a similar situation and following was my take on this
> > (all psuedo-code). One thing to note is that my iterator didn't needed any
> > validation.
> >
> > 1. Load Record
> > 2. Load Iterator
> >  3. Start Transaction action="">> > 4. try
> > 5. validate Record object
> > 6. if no error(s) then all following step else just show user the original
> > form
> > 7. loop through iterator and delete those one by one (I wish deleteAll has a
> > useTransaction argument)
> > 8. Add the new/current relationships into the iterator
> > 9 Save Iterator
> > 10 transaction action="">> > 10 catch - transaction action="">> > 11 end try
> >
> > HTH
> >
> >
> >  On 11/5/06, Mark Stanton < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Hi All
> > >
> > > We have run into a bit of a brick wall with Iterators and was hoping
> > > someone could point us in the right direction.
> > >
> > > To illustrator the problem I'll use an example:
> > >
> > > We have a UserGuideRecord object which has a title, a document and a
> > > many to many relationship to RoleRecord objects.The semantics of this
> > > relationship are - which user roles is this user guide relevant to.
> > >
> > > If I have an existing user guide and I want to edit it and modify the
> > > roles I currently go through the following process:
> > >
> > > - Load the existing UserGuideRecord
> > > - Get the UserGuide_RoleIterator
> > > - Delete all the current relationships from the iterator
> > > - Add the new/current relationships into the iterator
> > > - Validate the record
> > > - If no errors were found, save the record, otherwise return the user
> > > to the form
> > >
> > > The problem is that if validation fails, all the existing
> > > relationships have been deleted and are now lost.
> > >
> > > We had originally assumed that deleteAll - marked items for deletion
> > > and that until save() was called, no write operations were performed
> > > on the database. However this is not the case - deleteAll() physically
> > > deletes everything in the iterator from the pivot table.
> > >
> > > Does anyone have any suggestions about how to work around this?
> > >
> > >
> > > Cheers
> > >
> > > Mark
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > Mark Stanton
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