Well, almost all of us have had legacy schemas that did such things
and we have to deal with them.  Good luck!

mrg


On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 10:53 AM,  <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Thank you for all the feedback, i can see that there is plenty of solutions 
> that were not obvious at first. Yes I'm using 3.0.
>
> At first i thought i was committing a sin making this question, i smelled 
> something religious against meaningful primary keys in legacy systems.
>
> Regards
> Hans
>
> ----- "Michael Gentry" <[email protected]> escribió:
>
>> If you assign your primary key(s) manually, before telling Cayenne to
>> commitChanges(), then you'll be fine.  Cayenne will honor the PK
>> value
>> that you set without trying to replace it.
>>
>> You didn't mention which version of Cayenne, but for version 2.0 (and
>> I suppose even in 3.0) you can override your data object's
>> setPersistenceState() method:
>>
>>   public void setPersistenceState(int state)
>>   {
>>     super.setPersistenceState(state);
>>
>>     if (state == PersistenceState.NEW)
>>     {
>>        // Initialize PK here.
>>     }
>>   }
>>
>>
>> For Cayenne 3.0, you can use the new lifecycle callbacks:
>>
>> http://cayenne.apache.org/doc/lifecycle-callbacks.html
>>
>>
>> mrg
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 7:07 PM,  <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > We have a legacy table that have a meaningful primary key, many code
>> depends on it and it's not possible to alter it.
>> > We are building new java applications that need to insert in it.
>> >
>> > We would like to cayenne it and not use any sequence at all for
>> making inserts...
>> >
>> > ¿ it's possible to do it ?
>> >
>> > Regards
>> > Hans
>> >
>
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