I'd like to second this suggestion. There have been several instances that I've made required fields nullable solely because validation occurs prior to the @PrePersist lifecycle callback.
________________________________ From: Hugi Thordarson <h...@godurkodi.is> Sent: Wednesday, March 1, 2017 8:51:48 AM To: user@cayenne.apache.org Subject: Re: Validation and @PrePersist Hi Jurgen, fine suggestion but unfortunately not the part of the lifecycle I need to catch—the action needs to be performed before committing, not after adding (so basically I need @PrePersist—but I need it before validation happens). Cheers, - hugi > On 1. mar. 2017, at 13:14, <do...@xsinet.co.za> <do...@xsinet.co.za> wrote: > > Hi Hugi > > For this kind of thing use @PostAdd instead. > > Regards > Jurgen > > > -----Original Message----- From: Hugi Thordarson > Sent: Wednesday, March 1, 2017 1:18 PM > To: user@cayenne.apache.org > Subject: Validation and @PrePersist > > Hi all, > I have some logic in a Listener that uses @PrePersist to populate the value > of a required attribute before committing changes. Turns out this doesn’t > work, since Cayenne invokes validateForInsert() before running @PrePersist. > > Any suggestions for where I can invoke logic populates required values before > validation? > > Cheers, > - hugi
