On Nov 4, 2007, at 8:09 AM, Zak Burke wrote:

I'm getting a strange NPE from deep down in EOF that I can't figure out. I think it might be related to some slightly funky modeling I'm doing,

It is.  :-)


but my EOs work fine in other places so I'm not sure why they're broken here.

Here's the funkiness: I have two models -- NameStore and MyApp. NameStore contains a single EO, StoredName. MyApp has an EO MyAppPerson that extends StoredName, but the restricting qualifier is just "id > 0", that is, all StoredName EOs are MyAppPerson EOs. Basically, we have lots of (non-WO) apps that use the StoredName table and have their own tables joined to it. I modeled it in WO this way to keep the NameStore EO pristine -- all it does is hand out names -- while allowing other apps to tack things onto a local EO that extends StoredName.

What I want to do is retrieve a StoredName and then bless it into existence by re-fetching it as a MyAppPerson

Can't. When you fetch it as a StoredName, EOF associates the GlobalID with that entity. When you re-fetch it as MyAppPerson, EOF will still treat it as a StoredName.

You are going to have to fetch it as a MyAppPerson the first time.

Chuck


so I can access all its related objects. Because the StoredName and the MyAppPerson share the same primary key value, I'm just passing storedName.id() to a MyAppPerson method that retrieves items by their PKs.

try {
return (MyAppPerson) EOUtilities.objectMatchingKeyAndValue(ec, MyAppPerson.ENTITY_NAME, MyAppPerson.ID_KEY, id);
} catch (EOObjectNotAvailableException e) {
throw new RuntimeException("An MyAppPerson identified by " + id + " could not be found.");
} catch (EOUtilities.MoreThanOneException e) {
throw new RuntimeException("More than one MyAppPerson identified by " + id + " was found.");
}

The fetch works fine; I get an object back. But EOF explodes when I true access it, even just item.toString() to print it to a log (stacktrace below). It appears to be exploding after traversing an optional to-many join. I can use MyAppPerson items elsewhere so I don't think I have modeling errors, but, well, I'm totally stumped. Any ideas?

TIA,

zak.


[2007-11-04 10:18:08 EST] <WorkerThread0> java.lang.NullPointerException at com.webobjects.eoaccess.EODatabaseContext.arrayFaultWithSourceGlobalID (EODatabaseContext.java:3664) at com.webobjects.eoaccess.EODatabaseContext._fireDeferredFaultWithSource Object(EODatabaseContext.java:2551) at com.webobjects.eoaccess.EOAccessDeferredFaultHandler.createFaultForDef erredFault(EOAccessDeferredFaultHandler.java:45) at com.webobjects.eocontrol.EOCustomObject.willReadRelationship (EOCustomObject.java:1302) at com.webobjects.eocontrol._EOMutableKnownKeyDictionary $Initializer$_LazyGenericRecordBinding.valueInObject (_EOMutableKnownKeyDictionary.java:560) at com.webobjects.eocontrol.EOCustomObject.storedValueForKey (EOCustomObject.java:1736) at edu.dartmouth.dltg.authorization.eos._AuthzPerson.roles (_AuthzPerson.java:138)
        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke (NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke (DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:585)
at com.webobjects.foundation.NSKeyValueCoding$ValueAccessor $1.methodValue(NSKeyValueCoding.java:684) at com.webobjects.foundation.NSKeyValueCoding $_MethodBinding.valueInObject(NSKeyValueCoding.java:1160) at com.webobjects.eocontrol.EOCustomObject.valueForKey (EOCustomObject.java:1559) at com.webobjects.eocontrol.EOCustomObject.eoDescription (EOCustomObject.java:793) at com.webobjects.eocontrol.EOCustomObject.toString (EOCustomObject.java:239)
        at java.lang.String.valueOf(String.java:2615)
        at java.lang.StringBuffer.append(StringBuffer.java:220)
at edu.dartmouth.dltg.authorization.pages.RoleEditPeople.doSaveDnd (RoleEditPeople.java:138)

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