It seems to me an implication would be in cases where people have multiple forms to populate a single object, like in a wizard. I think it might be nice to have a switch in the <group tag that set clearAbsentFieldValues="true|false" (false). Intake could then use some logic to handle what Quinton has in mind, but still takes care of the cases where people don't want the values of absent fields set to null.
Chris > -----Original Message----- > From: John McNally [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, December 03, 2002 3:10 PM > To: Turbine Developers List > Subject: Re: Intake problem > > > It is a problem with the fact that intake treats an empty string as an > unset value. I'm not sure the implications of changing this behavior. > > john mcnally > > On Tue, 2002-12-03 at 13:37, Quinton McCombs wrote: > > I have noticed a small problem with intake after migrating to T2.2 RC2. > > It appears that I can not set a string field to null if it already had a > > value. Here are a few snippets from my configuration files.... > > > > intake.xml - > > > > <group name="Person" key="per" mapToObject="Person"> > > > > <field name="FirstName" key="perfn" type="String"> > > <rule name="maxlength" value="50">Maximum Length is > > 50</rule> > > <rule name="mask" value="^[a-zA-Z\s\-]+$">Alphabetic Value > > Required</rule> > > </field> > > > > </group> > > > > schema.xml - > > > > <table name="PERSON"> > > > > <column name="FIRST_NAME" size="20" type="VARCHAR"/> > > > > </table> > > > > > > My form is initially populated with data from the Person object. The > > field "FirstName" has a value. I then delete the value from the field > > and submit the form. > > > > After I get the intake tool and retreive the group, I look at the value > > of group.get("FirstName").getValue(). It is null. I load my object > > (person) from database to make modifications to it. The value of > > person.getFirstName() is "John". All is well so far. > > > > This line of code executes to update my persistent object with data from > > the group: group.setProperties(person); > > > > After this line of code executes, person.getFirstName() is "John". > > > > Other fields that were changed to non-null values were set properly > > during the execution of the method. > > > > After looking through the code a little, I found that > > Field.setProperty(Object) will nto eexcute the setter method unless > > Field.isSet() returns true. Is this a defect or is there something that > > I need to change in the way I am using intake? > > > > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
