2.0.4: child DataContext & localObject

[Marc A. Donis]

Hi,

I am seeing a strange interaction between child DataContexts and 
localObject.  If I set a to-one relationship from an object residing in a 
child context to another object which lives in that context's parent, I see:

org.apache.cayenne.CayenneRuntimeException: [v.2.0.4 October 12 2007] Cannot 
set object as destination of relationship abuseStatus because it is in a 
different DataContext

So I do:

@Override
public void setToOneTarget(String relationshipName, DataObject value, 
boolean setReverse) {
 if (value != null && value.getDataContext() != this.getDataContext() && 
value.getDataContext() != this.getDataContext()) {
  DataContext dc = getDataContext();
  value = (DataObject) dc.localObject(value.getObjectId(), null);
 }
 super.setToOneTarget(relationshipName, value, setReverse);
}

in the child context object's class, which works fine (but seems like it 
should not be necessary?).

But what I really want is:

 DataContext refDataContext = DataContext.createDataContext();
 CayenneDataObject ref = ...// get reference from refDataContext
 DataContext userDataContext = 
DataContext.createDataContext().createChildDataContext();
 CayenneDataObject obj = 
userDataContext.createAndRegisterNewObject(MasterObject.class);
 obj.setRef(ref);

In other words, the obj's context (the child context) is not a child of the 
referenced object's context.
In combination with the first bit of code, I now get:

org.apache.cayenne.validation.ValidationException: [v.2.0.4 October 12 
2007] Validation has failed.
Validation failure for MasterObject.ref: "ref"  is required.

because all the to-one relationship values set in this way are reset to null 
during userDataContext.commitChanges()!

The stack looks like this:

MasterObject.setToOneTarget(UnAmourDataObject.java:11)    ***  value == null 
in this call
org.apache.cayenne.access.ChildDiffLoader.arcCreated(ChildDiffLoader.java:120)
org.apache.cayenne.access.ObjectDiff$ArcOperation.apply(ObjectDiff.java:428)
org.apache.cayenne.graph.CompoundDiff.apply(CompoundDiff.java:97)
org.apache.cayenne.access.ObjectStoreGraphDiff.apply(ObjectStoreGraphDiff.java:136)
org.apache.cayenne.access.DataContext.onContextFlush(DataContext.java:1188)
org.apache.cayenne.access.DataContext.onSync(DataContext.java:1167)
org.apache.cayenne.access.DataContext.flushToParent(DataContext.java:1234)
org.apache.cayenne.access.DataContext.commitChanges(DataContext.java:1138)

Thoughts? Comments? Suggestions?

Thanks,
Marc