Ah nuts.... I have a m2m between Company and Address (with a Join table). Thus, Address isn't directly aware of Company. My Address gets inserted but the join table doesn't get updated. What's the recommended way of handling this? Should my Decorator override the save() method in order to update the Join table... or will Transfer maintain the Join table if access the Address through the Company?
TIA Jason On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 2:06 PM, Jason Durham wrote: >> >>> Ah... I hadn't considered that the Address was already aware of its >>> parent. Dealing with the Address object directly was less painful. :) >>> >>> With regard to cloning... isn't that the only way to do it? :o) My >>> validation mechanism occurs once the Transfer Object has been populated. I >>> don't want the (potentially) invalid form data to dirty the cache until it >>> has been validated. If the object doesn't validate, I pass the entire >>> object back to the form to output errors. >>> >>> Jason >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 1:46 PM, Tom McNeer <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> You're headed in the right direction, looking to use the composed >>>> relationships. But ... >>>> >>>> On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 2:19 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>>> My first exercise in saving an Address, did so without regard of the >>>>> CompanyID. Essentially, the handler took the AddressID, located the >>>>> correct >>>>> Transfer Object, cloned it, populated, validated and saved the Address >>>>> without any knowledge of a Company. This seemed to be working fine. >>>>> >>>> >>>> ... if you are working with a database record that currently exists and >>>> has the Company relationship attached, you don't need to deal with the >>>> Company at all. The Address object knows what its parent Company is, and if >>>> you don't need to change it, then you don't have to mess with it at all. >>>> >>>> For a new record, you'd need to use the CompanyID to retrieve the >>>> Company object, then do Address.setParentCompany(myCompany), or something >>>> like that, before saving the Address record. >>>> >>>> But if the Address already has a Company, most times you can just ignore >>>> it. (Unless of course, you actually need the Company for another reason.) >>>> >>>> But why did you need to clone the object? >>>> >>>> >>>> Thanks, >>>> >>>> Tom >>>> >>>> Tom McNeer >>>> MediumCool >>>> http://www.mediumcool.com >>>> 1735 Johnson Road NE >>>> Atlanta, GA 30306 >>>> 404.589.0560 >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Jason Durham >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Jason Durham >> > > > > -- > Jason Durham > -- Jason Durham --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Before posting questions to the group please read: http://groups.google.com/group/transfer-dev/web/how-to-ask-support-questions-on-transfer You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "transfer-dev" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/transfer-dev?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
