On 2011-04-22, at 4:59 PM, Chris Pastore wrote:
> While trying to return an EOGlobalID for a generic record, I am getting a
> null.
>
> I have a method to fetch a student:
> private static EOGenericRecord getStudent(EOEditingContext ctx, String sid) {
> EOGenericRecord student = (EOGenericRecord)
> EOUtilities.objectMatchingKeyAndValue(ctx, "Student", "studentId", sid);
> ctx.insertObject(student); //tried with and without inserting it into
> the context
You don't ^^^ need to do that. If you fetch an eo into an ec, it is inserted by
definition.
> return student;
> }
>
> Later I try to retrieve that object's EOGlobalID with the following:
> EOGlobalID globalID = ctx.globalIDForObject((EOGenericRecord) value);
Are you sure the eo is in the given ec? Safer would be:
value.editingContext().globalIDForObject(value);
>
> The value of globalID is always null. What am I missing?
>
> Thank you for any help you may be able to offer,
>
> Chris Pastore
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