Is there a canonical way in Torque to do something like this: 1. Create a new object with its constructor (e.g., new Category(), new Author())
2. get the ID value that the object *will have* if I called save(), even if I'm not ready to call save yet If I were writing Oracle-specific code, I would use a sequence and select xxx.nextval from dual, use this value as my ID if I save the object, and throw the ID away if I don't. In Torque, there are a lot of different permutations: different databases (not all have sequences) and different ID method generation techniques (Torque id broker vs. native, and native might generate post-insertion). So there's probably not a way to do this with native sequences that will work on on all DBs. (Here's a kludge, though: .save() the record and doDelete() it immediately; the ID will then be legal if you save it again. :-)) So I'm wondering, if I commit to the ID broker, is there a good way to fetch an ID without inserting a record, that is guaranteed to be legal if I *do* insert the record, similar to the get-sequence-value, maybe-insert pattern with Oracle? Thanks, -- Bill -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
