This is a long shot but, in your statement below, description is spelled incorrectly...
Looking at the table with pgAdmin (I am using postgres), I find the field DESCRITPTION as expected, but it is empty. On Tue, May 9, 2017 at 7:33 PM, Skip <[email protected]> wrote: > I have a problem with a field named "description". The problem is that > when > I write to this field, it never ends up in the database. > > The entity definition looks like this: > > <entity entity-name="VendingMachinePack" > ... > field name="description" type="description" > field name="descAgain" type="description" > ... > > I write to the field like this: > > Map input = UtilMisc.toMap(...); > input.put("description", description); > input.put("descAgain", description); > > ... > GenericValue newPack = delegator.makeValue("VendingMachinePack", input); > System.out.println("Have Pack = " + newPack); > //newPack.create(); > toStore.add(newPack); > > System.out.println("Have description " + newPack.getString(" > description")); > > .... > > delegator.storeAll(toStore); > > My log file shows the correct description from the System.out.println("Have > description " statement. > > However, looking at the table using WebTools, the description field is > EMPTY!!! > > I added a second description field called "descAgain" and this shows up > fine > as well as all the other 20 fields in the table. Just the description > field > is empty. > > There are dozens of uses of "description" as a field name. > > Looking at the table with pgAdmin (I am using postgres), I find the field > DESCRITPTION as expected, but it is empty. > > I have tried deleting the table with pgAdmin and having it automatically > recreated. As can be seen above, I have tried calling newPack.create(); > instead of delegator.storeAll(toStore); as well as a bunch of other stuff. > > Nothing I have tried has any effect on "description" this field. > > My log file has no errors. > > Anyone have any ideas on what might be going on? > > Skip > >
