Hi David How do I put an entity into a context / contextMap? Thanks Patrick
On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 8:17 PM, David E Jones <[email protected]> wrote: > > The map passed to a service call is the "context" (incoming parameters) for > that service. > > You're passing an entity value object to the service as the context instead > of putting the entity value object IN the context and then passing the > context. There are two problems with that: > > 1. the entity value object will likely have values in it that are not valid > for the service > 2. the service engine is going to look for values in the value object that > are not part of the entity, thus triggering an error meant to help with > run-time debugging > > -David > > > On Jan 31, 2010, at 7:25 PM, Patrick wrote: > >> Basically I am trying to pass a ProductCategory into the service >> createProductCategory below >> >> <simple-method method-name="createUserLoginAndCategory" >> login-required="false"> >> <make-value value-field="productCat" entity-name="ProductCategory"/> >> <set field="productCat.productCategoryId" value="778"/> >> <set field="productCat.categoryName" value="TEST"/> >> <call-service service-name="createProductCategory" in-map-name="productCat" >> /> >> >> I would like to create this entity "ProductCategory" and pass it into >> the service "createProductCategory" >> >> The error I get is this, java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: >> [GenericEntity.set] "userLogin" is not a field of ProductCategory, >> must be one of: productCategoryId, productCategoryTypeId, >> >> This doesn't make sense to me, because I know that userLogin is not a >> field of ProductCategory, my code doesn't indicate that at all. >> Thanks in advance for any assistance. Patrick > >
