Ted,

I put this type of stuff in:

public void awakeFromInsertion(EOEditingContext ec) {
        super.awakeFromInsertion(ec);

        // my code
}

Ken

On Jun 6, 2014, at 9:51 AM, Theodore Petrosky <[email protected]> wrote:

> I am starting a project. a booking app for a theater. basically I want to 
> assign all my primary players to a show date when I create a new show date 
> (event).
> 
> I could have 50 musicians, but only 10 are the primary players. my Person 
> entity has a boolean 'isPrimary' to indicate that this person is a primary 
> player.
> 
> Entity ShowDate has a to many relationship to showPerson 
> Entity Person has a to many relationship to showPerson 
> 
> In my init method of ShowDate I added:
> 
>   public void init(EOEditingContext ec) {
>     super.init(ec);
>     
>     for (Person aPerson: Person.fetchPersons(ec, 
> Person.IS_PRIMARY.eq(true).and(Person.CURRENT.eq(true)), null)) {
>       ShowPerson.createShowPerson(ec, aPerson, this);  
>     }
>   }
> 
> This is working beautifully. When I create a new ShowDate, I get all the 
> primary musicians added to the date.
> 
> am I stepping on myself? Since the init method is only called when we create 
> a new instance of an entity, this can only get called once, yes? There isn't 
> a betterer (that's real good english) way? Or a more WO prescribed way?
> 
> I am making this up as I go and when I stumble across a method that works, I 
> question when it is so easy.
> 
> Ted
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