Hi there,

On 06/01/2006, at 4:16 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

I am using a WOToOneRelationship and having some issues with the editing context becoming "dirty" when no changes are made to the object itself.

I have a User entity with a "to one" relationship (department) to my Department entity. Here are the bindings for the WOToOneRelationship component in WOBuilder used modifying an instance of the User entity, called validatedUser.

WOToOneRelationship1: WOToOneRelationship {     
        relationshipKey = "department";
        sourceObject = mySession.validatedUser;
        sourceEntityName = "User";
        uiStyle = "popup";
        dataSource = allDepartments;
        destinationDisplayKey = "shortDescriptor";
}

(FYI. I followed some tips on Kieran's website (http:// homepage.mac.com/kelleherk/iblog/C183784902/E951811406/index.html) to display all of the departments contained in my Department Entity. This is because I have ERExtensions as part of my application's frameworks.... Thanks Kieran!).

All is working fine and I can display the validatedUser (an instance of the User Entity) and his/her department. If I change the department from the WOToOneRelationship popup, and save the changes to the editing context, the changes are saved successfully to the database.

My problem is that when I merely display the validatedUser and do not make any changes, I am still seeing the object as being updated by logging the updatedObjects() of the editing context. If I remove the WOToOneRelationship from the page, and replace with a simple WOTextField, I do not see the object as being updated , when I do not perform any changes to the user. This is the behavior I would like to see, and would expect, when using WOToOneRelationship.

Try updating your User like...

public void setDepartment( Department aDepartment ) {
        Department currentDepartment;

        currentDepartment = department();
        if ( currentDepartment != aDepartment ) {
                ...
        }
}

That way your entity will not "update" itself when you're simply giving it the same value.

with regards,
--

Lachlan Deck


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