here's (part of) my schema. did i do something wrong?
could very well be since it's my first. ;)

  <table name="GENRE">
    <column name="ID" type="INTEGER" required="true"
     autoIncrement="true" primaryKey="true"/>
    <column name="NAME" type="VARCHAR" size="50" required="true"/>
    <unique>
      <unique-column name="NAME"/>
    </unique>
  </table>
  <table name="ARTIST">
    <column name="ID" type="INTEGER" required="true"
     autoIncrement="true" primaryKey="true"/>
    <column name="NAME" type="VARCHAR" size="100" required="true"/>
    <column name="PATTERN" type="VARCHAR" size="255"/>
    <column name="SORTNAME" type="VARCHAR" size="255"/>
    <column name="GENRE_ID" type="INTEGER"/>
    <foreign-key foreignTable="GENRE">
      <reference local="GENRE_ID" foreign="ID"/>
    </foreign-key>
  </table>
  <table name="WEBSITE">
    <column name="ID" type="INTEGER" required="true"
     autoIncrement="true" primaryKey="true"/>
    <column name="NAME" type="VARCHAR" size="100" required="true"/>
    <column name="URL" type="VARCHAR" size="200" required="true"/>
  </table>
  <table name="ARTIST_HAS_WEBSITE">
    <column name="ARTIST_ID" type="INTEGER" required="true"
     primaryKey="true"/>
    <foreign-key foreignTable="ARTIST">
      <reference local="ARTIST_ID" foreign="ID"/>
    </foreign-key>
    <column name="WEBSITE_ID" type="INTEGER" required="true"
     primaryKey="true"/>
    <foreign-key foreignTable="WEBSITE">
      <reference local="WEBSITE_ID" foreign="ID"/>
    </foreign-key>
  </table>

bye
fabian

On Thu, 2002-01-24 at 07:28, John McNally wrote:
> The first example should work.  You might want to show your schema.xml,
> to give others some idea what might be wrong.  artist1.getPrimaryKey()
> should give the id assigned after saving the object.  It should not be
> null.  If it is something is wrong with your xml.
> 
> john mcnally
> 
> > 
> > this doesn't work:
> > 
> > Artist artist1 = new Artist();
> > artist1.setName("Primus");
> > artist1.save();
> > 
> > Website website1 = new Website();
> > website1.setName("Primus Online");
> > website1.setUrl("http://www.primussucks.com";);
> > website1.save();
> > 
> > ArtistHasWebsite link = new ArtistHasWebsite();
> > link.setArtist(artist1);
> > link.setWebsite(website1);
> > link.save(); //Column 'ARTIST_ID' cannot be null
> > 
> > this does work:
> > 
> > Artist artist1 = new Artist();
> > artist1.setName("Primus");
> > artist1.save();
> > 
> > Website website1 = new Website();
> > website1.setName("Primus Online");
> > website1.setUrl("http://www.primussucks.com";);
> > website1.save();
> > 
> > Artist artist2 = ArtistFactory.findByName(artist1.getName());
> > Website website2 = WebsiteFactory.findByUrl(website1.getUrl());
> > 
> > ArtistHasWebsite link = new ArtistHasWebsite();
> > link.setArtist(artist2);
> > link.setWebsite(website2);
> > link.save();
> > 
> > tried defaultIdMethod native and idBroker by now.
> > 
> > bye
> > fabian
> > 
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