so are you suggesting that awakeFromInsertion is the correct place to assign 
these entities? I actually assumed that there was an editingContext at this 
point. And you know what they say about assuming.

If I put my code in awake from insertion, I then call 
“editingContext().saveChanges” at the end?



On Feb 11, 2015, at 11:21 AM, Chuck Hill <[email protected]> wrote:

> Doing anything to an EO when it is not in an EC (e.g. Before it is inserted) 
> seems like a Very Bad Idea.  EOF is not expecting this.
> 
> Chuck
> 
> 
> On 2015-02-11, 8:17 AM, "Theodore Petrosky" wrote:
> 
> but (and I will test this assumption) isn’t awakeFromInsertion called AFTER 
> the insertion? and willInsert Before?
> 
> I need to assign these relationships BEFORE the main EO is inserted. So in my 
> case, I want to relate all the BOOKS that belong to the Show, then assign the 
> PrimaryPlayer to the books.
> 
> As I said, I will confirm the order of events with some tests.
> 
> The next question is the exception. If two people are marked PrimaryMusician 
> ( which is an operator error ), I want to throw an exception and tell the 
> user, “Sorry, could not assign person to Viola as two people are marked 
> “Primary Player”! (Jane Doe, Peter Simpson)
> 
> 
> On Feb 11, 2015, at 10:49 AM, Samuel Pelletier <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Theodore,
> I think your code would be in a better place in the awakeFromInsertion 
> instead of willInsert.
> awakeFromInsertion is called only once when the EO is created. My 
> understanding is willInsert is called when a EO will be saved the first time 
> by an EOEditingcontext.
> Samuel
> Le 2015-02-10 à 09:13, Theodore Petrosky <[email protected]> a écrit :
> I am in the process of creating an example d2w app. Basically it manages 
> Shows and the People that play them. the end result is a report for any given 
> week and specific show, who played what book?
> So I can create shows, people, instruments. and I am looking at the Events. 
> An event is a performance. It needs a show, and date/time (there could be 
> multiple performances on any given day).
> So I create an Event, and I need to pick up all the books that belong to the 
> Show and the people that are the Primary players of the book.
> My solution was to use the willInsert() in the EO:
> @Override
> public void willInsert() {
> super.willInsert();
> EOQualifier bookForPrimaryPersonQualifier = Person.CURRENT.eq(true);
> bookForPrimaryPersonQualifier = ERXQ.and(bookForPrimaryPersonQualifier, 
> Person.PERSON_BOOKS.dot(PersonBook.IS_PRIMARY_PLAYER.eq(true)));
> EOQualifier booksAssignedToShowQualifier = Book.SHOW.eq(this.show()); //all 
> the books for this show
> NSArray<Book> booksForThisEvent = Book.fetchBooks(editingContext(), 
> booksAssignedToShowQualifier, null);
> for (Book aBook: booksForThisEvent) {
> bookForPrimaryPersonQualifier = ERXQ.and(bookForPrimaryPersonQualifier, 
> Person.PERSON_BOOKS.dot(PersonBook.BOOK.eq(aBook)));
> Person aPerson = Person.fetchPerson(this.editingContext(), 
> bookForPrimaryPersonQualifier);
> if (aPerson != null) { //if there is a primary person applied to this book, 
> assign him/her to the EventBook else it's null!
> EventBook eo = EventBook.createEventBook(this.show().editingContext(), aBook, 
> this);
> eo.setPersonRelationship(aPerson);
> } else {
> EventBook.createEventBook(this.show().editingContext(), aBook, this); 
> }
> bookForPrimaryPersonQualifier = Person.CURRENT.eq(true); //resetting the 
> qualifier to base case
> }
> }
> Am I stepping on myself doing this in the EO and willInsert?
> and
> I need help with throwing an exception. if there are two people assigned as 
> the primary player of a given book, of course it blows up.
> Person aPerson = Person.fetchPerson(this.editingContext(), 
> bookForPrimaryPersonQualifier);
> Assuming that the willInsert() method is okay to do, what’s the correct way 
> to surround this with a try/catch and throw the exception. Obviously, if I 
> just surround it with the try/catch like this:
> Person aPerson = null;
> try {
> aPerson = Person.fetchPerson(this.editingContext(), 
> bookForPrimaryPersonQualifier);
> } catch (Exception e) {
> // TODO Auto-generated catch block
> e.printStackTrace();
> }
> the insertion will succeed assigning no one to the offending book.
> I can only hope that willInsert passes muster!
> Ted
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