I believe this is so you don't use a number that may have been already
generated. The default ID for ofbiz are numbers.
if your going to use numbers either append a letter to it or allow ofbiz
to assign the ID.
Pranay Pandey sent the following on 4/14/2008 8:53 AM:
> Hi,
>
> The scenario is:
> I wrote a simple event for creating a party by generating the partyId in it
> by <sequenced-id-to-env.
> Now i am passing auto generated partyId to "createPerson" service.
> But the code snippet from PartyServices.java retruns me the error message.
>
> // if specified partyId starts with a number, return an error
> if (partyId != null && partyId.length() > 0 &&
> Character.isDigit(partyId.charAt(0))) {
> return
> ServiceUtil.returnError(UtilProperties.getMessage(resource,
> "party.id_is_digit", locale));
> }
>
> If this is the case then we can't use this service i.e. "createPerson" in
> our custom service while generating partyId earlier and then passing it to
> this service.
>
> Thoughts ???
>
