Hi Jared,

You can call nullifyDates() in the configure method of your decorator.
Transfer will fire the configure method before returning the new object.

Paul

On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 1:28 PM, Jared <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>
> I read through this thread, but I still don't understand how to handle
> the problem where date properties of a transfer object default to Now
> ().  I find that weird.  Why don't they default to the null value for
> dates?  Setting them to Now() is a bit like defaulting string values
> to "hello there" or defaulting numeric values to 17.  I can't write a
> configure method to handle this, since I don't want to always set the
> date values to null (or whatever stands in for null, since CF doesn't
> have null (which is annoying)).  I only want to do so in response to
> Transfer.new().  The only thing I can think of is to write a method in
> my decorator called nullifyDates() that goes through each date and
> does a setMyDatePropertyNull().  Then, whenever I do a new() for this
> type of object I would, on the next line, do a myObj.nullifyDates() to
> fix the weirdness of dates defaulting to Now().  Seems like a bit of a
> hack.  Is that the only way?
>
> That said, transfer is great!  Long live transfer.  Send Mark money.
>
> >
>


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Paul Marcotte
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