Take a look at this:
http://docs.transfer-orm.com/wiki/Handling_Null_Values.cfm
The issue is that ColdFusion does not actually support nulls, so when
the data is retrieved from the database, if it is a null, it must be
stored in your business object as _something_.
The default way of storing a
I hate hacks, but I've hacked my way around this issue. I simply set
the default value to -1 and then I made an override method to check if
the value is = 0. If not, I return an empty string.
On Oct 15, 1:28 pm, Steve Brownlee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thanks, Matt. That's actually the first
Hi John,
I played with this from a onetomany prespective and quickly learned that I
had an object explosion on my hands since each object would maintain a
reference to it's parent and a collection of child objects. Instead, I
modeled it with simplicity and performance in mind. With manytoone,
Why write a decorator, when you could just obj.getFooIsNull() and it
would do the value check for you?
I tend to write nullable values that can be 0 or more to an incredibly
large negative number
Mark
On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 5:50 AM, Steve Brownlee
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I hate hacks, but
once submissions stop coming in
Do you have a date in mind?
On Oct 16, 7:42 am, Mark Mandel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Nope, I'm keeping it all to myself ;o)
Yeah, I'll do a blog post outlining the results, once submissions stop
coming in.
It's been really eye opening!
Mark
On Thu,
