* write the record to database, fetch it back again and
then you'll have the primary key
Than this is not the same transaction :(.
Correct. This is a limitation of how databases work, not Cayenne. You
can't have a primary key until you write the record, unless you do
something tricky like using a nanosecond timestamp hashed with the MAC
address of your machine and the number you first thought of.
Sorry but this is complete *bullshit*.
There's no such database limitation. I can write in the same transaction
(i.e. before I do commit), the values received from the previous inserts
- even those generated by the DB.
E.g. for Mysql, for the following tables:
t_1(id integer autoincrement, name varchar40)
t_2(id integer autoincrement, name varchar40, t_1_id integer)
(see that t_1_id field is not a foreign key here)
No if one is doing with DB directly or with JDBC, the following will work:
-- start transaction
INSERT INTO t_1 (name) VALUES ('name1');
INSERT INTO t_1 (name) VALUES ('name2');
INSERT INTO t_2 (name,t_1_id) select 'name1' , t_1.id from t_1 where
t_1.name='name1';
commit; -- end transaction
so the correct primary key value (generated by the DB for t_1) will be
insert at the correct position of t_2.t_1_id, and this inside the same
transaction - so just like using FK would.
Now, my trivial question again: How to do it with Cayenne, how to get
that ID to write again inside the same transaction?
(I mentioned in the previous posts that I don't have for t_2.t_1_id a
relationship, nor FK, because there are too many tables like that).
This is an incredible common scenario in most DBs, so I suppose that it
should be possible with an ORM like Cayenne too(since with SQL or JDBC
is dead easy).
I red the entire documentation several times but couldn't find anything
how to do it in Cayenne :(.
thanks in advance,
Joseph.
