Thanks a lot for the feedback everyone. I implemented Robert's way - it was
simple and effective. Also, I had to override removeToManyTarget to log
removal from to-many relationships. And if anyone is going to be researching
this problem later, I might just as well mention that extending the logger
object to use the custom overridden writeProperty is a bad idea because it
keeps trying to log it's own log operation recursively :-)
On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 5:09 PM, Robert Zeigler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I had a requirement very similar to this in a recent project.
> Every change made to a set of objects had to be recorded to be able to
> provide a history of changes to an object.
> What I did was to have those objects descend from a common super
> class, which, in turn, descends from CayenneDataObject.
> In my superclass, I overrode writeProperty and setToOneTarget. You
> get the new values passed into you, and you have a chance to examine
> the old values, as well, by calling readProperty. It has worked out
> quite nicely.
>
> Here's a sample snippet from writeProperty:
>
> @Override
> public void writeProperty(String name, Object value){
> Object old = readProperty(name);
> if (value == null) {
> if (old != null) {
> recordChange(name,name + " changed from " +
> labelFor(readProperty(name)) + " to " + labelFor(value));
> }
> } else if (!value.equals(old)) {
> recordChange(name,name + " changed from " +
> labelFor(readProperty(name)) + " to " + labelFor(value));
> }
> super.writeProperty(name, value);
> }
>
> recordChange handles recording the changes for me; labelFor takes an
> object and converts it into a string suitable for user consumption.
>
> HTH,
>
> Robert
>
> On Feb 22, 2008, at 2/228:59 AM , Ilya Lazarev wrote:
>
> > Apologies if this has been asked before, I couldn't find anything in
> > the
> > archives. The problem boils down to this: there is a cayenne object
> > which is
> > updated via a form. I want to capture changes made to every single
> > modified
> > field in a DB, the value before modification and the value after.
> > The object
> > has a number of to-many relationships, which would also have to be
> > checked
> > one by one. The simplest way I can envision this is by manually
> > creating an
> > object clone before any modifications are made, and then comparing
> > the two
> > objects and noting the differences. Is there an easier way to see a
> > diff of
> > the fields, perhaps by accessing properties of the cayenne object
> > itself? I
> > am using cayenne 2.
> >
> > Many thanks,
> > Ilya
>
>
