Hi Jurgen, PostAdd is fine for seting a createDate, but what about an updateDate or something similar? If these assertions are all true:
1. validation is supposed to not change attributes 2. no more changes should be made after validation happened 3. PrePersist runs after validation then there is just no place left to set something like an updateDate. Also, PrePersist would be restricted to do read-only checks that you can also do during validation, which makes no sense to me conceptually. Maik > Am 02.03.2017 um 07:56 schrieb do...@xsinet.co.za: > > Hi All > > We had a similar discussion Sept-Oct 2012 where it was noted that there was a > discrepancy between the docs and the implementation. That was with 3.1B where > the behaviour was the same as it is now, i.e. validation occurs before > PrePersist (but as noted by Michael the 3.1 docs incorrectly state "after" ). > > So I assume that subsequently the docs were updated for cayenne 4 to > correctly reflect the behaviour. > > Back then it was stated that PostAdd was the correct place to do this kind of > thing, which I think is fine for fields that have standard default values. > > It can get a bit clumsy sometimes where you sometimes have to have both > PostAdd and PrePersist doing the same thing. For example for a timestamp > field where object entity creation (PostAdd) occurs much earlier than the > commit (PrePersist), but you want the commit timestamp. This is where I would > have preferred the behaviour that Hugi is looking for where PrePersist is > called first, before validation. > > Cheers, > Jurgen > > > -----Original Message----- From: Michael Gentry > Sent: Wednesday, March 1, 2017 5:38 PM > To: Cayenne Users > Subject: Re: Validation and @PrePersist > > 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 >> >
