Hi Doug,

On 2012-06-08, at 9:35 AM, doug andrews wrote:

> Most of my entities are of class EOGenericRecord.
> I do have a few custom entity classes that extend EOGenericRecord.

Either your app is really simple, or you are doing it wrong.  :-)


> Sometimes, not always, the accessor methods for the "to one" relationships 
> return null, even though I know the relationship exists.  This usually only 
> occurs when the app has 70 or more sessions running.

That sounds more like you are breaking EOF commandments and getting EOF state 
corruption due to concurrency conflicts.


> The code for these custom entities was generated by the old EOModeler app.
> They simply return storedValueForKey.

That sounds correct.


> The foreign key of the relationship is marked as "not null" in the model, but 
> the relationship is marked as "optional".  I know this is probably wrong, but 
> the old EOModeler app let you get away with this, and i'm sure stuff would 
> break if i changed it now.
> 
> To get the related entity from an EO that is of type EOGenericRecord, I 
> simply use valueForKey, and this never seems to return null.  Since this 
> always works, should my accessor methods in my custom entity classes return 
> valueForKey instead of storedValueForKey?  Would that fix my problem?


No, that will cause infinite recursion as valueForKey will call your accessor 
methods which will call valueForKey which will call....



Chuck


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