On 2011-03-20, at 4:59 PM, Theodore Petrosky wrote: > I have a rather simple object. it has about 15 attributes. My users have > informed me that they need a way to insert 25 duplicates of this object. > Obviously they go in and change the due date (or some other attribute) of the > duplicates. this is the only change. > > so i gave them a simple popup with the numbers 1 to 25 and they can choose > how many of these things they want. > > what would be the easiest and bestest way to dup these objects. I started > thinking to create a loop that iterates the number of times that they want > and insert a new EO into the EC and copy the attributes from my master object. > > But maybe there is an easier way? > > I hope I am explaining it simply enough
Practical WebObjects has a great chapter on EO copying. Unfortunately it is a subject that can eat an entire chapter. Duplicating only the attributes is easy, you can just ask the existing EO for it's entity, ask the entity for it's attributes, and then iterate through them calling setValueForKey on the new EO with valueForKey on the existing one. However when you get into relationships things become much more difficult to handle in a generic way (i.e: do you want to copy the destination EOs or just the relationships, do you want to copy the relationships of the destination EOs, etc). Anyway, the chapter in Chuck's book is well worth the read. ;david -- David LeBer Codeferous Software 'co-def-er-ous' adj. Literally 'code-bearing' site: http://codeferous.com blog: http://davidleber.net profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/davidleber twitter: http://twitter.com/rebeld -- Toronto Area Cocoa / WebObjects developers group: http://tacow.org _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Webobjects-dev mailing list ([email protected]) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/webobjects-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to [email protected]
