Hi all, I've been trying to merge our existing project to one based on OfBIZ. I've had a bit of succes thus far, but I've hit a snag.
We used to run on a MySQL. I build a Database.class which had a few easy to use methods, which you could hand an id to retrieve an object or hand an object for storage. The objects themself also have a store method, which was shorthand for calling the Database.store() method yourself. A problem I'm running into right now is how to store and retrieve a pyramid of objects. I used to be able to call Database.get(id) which would give me an object, which was a child of SObject, and have a specialized method which would also take a class argument. The main problem is in the first retrieval method, the generic one. All of the find methods I can see require me to use an entity name, but I can't be sure which entity name I should use, unless I use at least one more call to the database as I would have to store yet another piece of information in a seperate entity. Is there an easier way then having to store yet another entity, and do 2 finds when I need to recreate an object? Second point: Is there a method which can create an object for me? Do I need to subclass a specific class or use a specific method? All that I have found thus far is that the find methods return a genericValue. I suppose I could get all the values and stick them into my own object, but I'm not sure that's the proper way of doing it. Thanks for the time, help and patience. David van der Staak
