Mike Haberman wrote:
> 
> I was wondering if I can get your input regarding the use of native
> types in the BaseObject subclasses.  The problem is that there is no
> way of detecting a null attribute.  Right now all my integer fields
> are foreighn keys so that a value of 0 is null (for me). But, this might
> not be the case in the future.
> 
>    Any way, is anyone else running into this problem?  We could solve
>    it by
>       1. not using native types

+1

>       2. by including isNull() for each of the field types (if setXXX()
>       is never called, isXXXNull() will be true).
>       3. I may be missing something and the solution already exists!

No, I am also trying to solve problems related to this.

> 
>     I realize both solutions will require people to rewrite a bunch of
>     their code if they are using the 0 check (me included). It should
>     be easy enough to update torque to use the wrapper classes.
> 
>     thanks!!
> 
>     mike
> 
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