Hi Hugi, I was indeed looking at < 4. No idea why the change was made. Perhaps someone else can answer that one...
Thanks, mrg On Wed, Mar 1, 2017 at 10:03 AM, Hugi Thordarson <h...@godurkodi.is> wrote: > Hi Michael, > the documentation was apparently changed for 4.0 in 2015 to reflect the > current behaviour: > > https://github.com/apache/cayenne/commit/5bb12cd36f0d87e3b217cdc20c22a0 > f6dc9613f3#diff-5b9a57288e30ef9855d80a63a812ec4f > > Cheers, > - hugi > > > > On 1. mar. 2017, at 14:59, Michael Gentry <blackn...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Hi Hugi, > > > > If validateForInsert() is being called before PrePersist, we have a > > disconnect between the documentation and the behavior you are seeing: > > > > "PrePersist: right before a new object is committed, inside > > ObjectContext.commitChanges() and ObjectContext.commitChangesToParent() > > (and prior to validateForInsert())." > > > > What version of Cayenne are you using? I wonder if something has changed > > or if the documentation is just wrong. > > > > Thanks, > > > > mrg > > > > > > > > On Wed, Mar 1, 2017 at 6:18 AM, Hugi Thordarson <h...@godurkodi.is> > wrote: > > > >> 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 > >
