Yeah, I meant to follow up yesterday and say I fixed that - work blindness. That of course redirected me to a an actual error that was easily solvable. The custom factory method is working now.
It took me bit to figure out that I wasn’t receiving a null string from the source database (SQL Server) - I was receiving a string with two spaces (“ “). Just a little annoying. Tim UCLA GSE&IS > On Jan 19, 2016, at 2:00 PM, Chuck Hill <ch...@gevityinc.com> wrote: > > Your method is missing the ‘static’ keyword. This can’t be an instance > method as there is not an instance yet. > > Chuck > > > From: <webobjects-dev-bounces+chill=gevityinc....@lists.apple.com > <mailto:webobjects-dev-bounces+chill=gevityinc....@lists.apple.com>> on > behalf of T Worman <li...@thetimmy.com <mailto:li...@thetimmy.com>> > Date: Tuesday, January 19, 2016 at 1:27 PM > To: "webobjects-dev@lists.apple.com <mailto:webobjects-dev@lists.apple.com>" > <webobjects-dev@lists.apple.com <mailto:webobjects-dev@lists.apple.com>> > Subject: enum attribute conundrum > > Hello All: > > I have an attribute that is using the javaEnum prototype. This works awesome > - until some value comes trouncing through from the source DB (not under my > control) that is, in some circumstances an empty string instead of one of the > enum values. This yields an error like this which is understandable: > > IllegalArgumentException: No enum constant > edu.ucla.gseis.core.enums.PaySchedule. > at java.lang.Enum.valueOf(Enum.java:238) > at edu.ucla.gseis.core.enums.PaySchedule.valueOf(PaySchedule.java:1) > > So, I tried to change the factory method (from ‘valueOf') in the model to use > my custom fromString method in my enum. The method should call valueOf just > like the original factory method. > > public PaySchedule fromString(String aString) { > > if (S.isEmpty(aString)) { > log.info <http://log.info/>("trying to convert the value of an empty > string to PaySchedule. Switching to UN forced."); > return valueOf("UN"); > } > return valueOf(aString); > } > > However, now I get a new error like below. Notice this is happening when > fetching EO’s that use this attribute. Does anyone have some kung-fu to help > me here? Or do I have to abandon use of the javaEnum prototype here? > > IllegalArgumentException: object is not an instance of declaring class > at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) > ... skipped 5 stack elements > at > com.webobjects.eoaccess.EOAttribute.newValueForString(EOAttribute.java:1039) > at > com.webobjects.jdbcadaptor.JDBCColumn._newValueForString(JDBCColumn.java:675) > at > com.webobjects.jdbcadaptor.JDBCColumn._fetchCorrectObject(JDBCColumn.java:334) > at com.webobjects.jdbcadaptor.JDBCColumn._fetchValue(JDBCColumn.java:384) > at > com.webobjects.jdbcadaptor.ERXJDBCColumn._fetchValue(ERXJDBCColumn.java:81) > at > com.webobjects.jdbcadaptor.DateJDBCColumn._fetchValue(DateJDBCColumn.java:63) > at com.webobjects.jdbcadaptor.JDBCColumn.fetchValue(JDBCColumn.java:372) > at com.webobjects.jdbcadaptor.ERXJDBCColumn.fetchValue(ERXJDBCColumn.java:1) > at > com.webobjects.jdbcadaptor.DateJDBCColumn.fetchValue(DateJDBCColumn.java:1) > ... skipped 4 stack elements > at > com.webobjects.eocontrol.EOObjectStoreCoordinator.objectsWithFetchSpecification(EOObjectStoreCoordinator.java:488) > at > com.webobjects.eocontrol.EOEditingContext.objectsWithFetchSpecification(EOEditingContext.java:4069) > at er.extensions.eof.ERXEC.objectsWithFetchSpecification(ERXEC.java:1308) > at > com.webobjects.eocontrol.EOEditingContext.objectsWithFetchSpecification(EOEditingContext.java:4444) > at > er.extensions.eof.ERXFetchSpecification.fetchObjects(ERXFetchSpecification.java:155) > at > edu.ucla.qdb.employee.entities._QDBEmployeeAppt.fetchQDBEmployeeAppts(_QDBEmployeeAppt.java:645) > at > edu.ucla.qdb.sync.QDBSyncUtil.getQdbAppointmentsWithDeptCodesForSyncing(QDBSyncUtil.java:826) > > Tim > UCLA GSE&IS
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