Hi Jesse,

We often have a someValue_unique attribute that is set when the main editable 
version of it is set. It isn’t editable by the user directly, but is adjusted 
when the other value is update — and it is used for uniquing, i.e.:

public void setSomeValue(String value){ super.setSomeValue(value); 
_cleanupSomeValue_unique(); }

-G

> On Nov 24, 2021, at 5:02 AM, Jesse Tayler via Webobjects-dev 
> <webobjects-dev@lists.apple.com> wrote:
> 
> so, basically, you are suggesting that I store them flat lowercase and put a 
> constraint on these two strings and just lose any case the user entered which 
> is fine I think.
> 
> With the lowercase assured the constraint will prevent duplicates and I’d 
> catch that exception during creation and handle it
> 
>> On Nov 24, 2021, at 12:19 AM, Samuel Pelletier <sam...@samkar.com 
>> <mailto:sam...@samkar.com>> wrote:
>> 
>> If your usernames (or keyString) are case insensitive, store them in a 
>> normalized case (in lowercase for exemple). 
>> 
>> You can add an overridden 
>> public void setKeyString(String value) {
>>      if (value != null) {
>>              value = value.toLowerCase();
>>      }
>>      super.setKeyString(value);
>> }
>> 
>> You may also specify a collation to the column in the database if you want 
>> to preserve case but index and compare as case insensitive.
>> 
>> Samuel
>> 
>>> Le 23 nov. 2021 à 17:26, Jesse Tayler via Webobjects-dev 
>>> <webobjects-dev@lists.apple.com <mailto:webobjects-dev@lists.apple.com>> a 
>>> écrit :
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> On Nov 23, 2021, at 5:17 PM, Paul Hoadley <pa...@logicsquad.net 
>>>> <mailto:pa...@logicsquad.net>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Are you able to paste in some code? There's probably a solution, but this 
>>>> is getting a bit hard to follow in the abstract.
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> So, I fetch first
>>> 
>>>             EOQualifier qual = 
>>> DataPoint.TYPE.eq("twitter").and(DataPoint.KEY_STRING.likeInsensitive(username));
>>> 
>>> If there’s no EO, I create and save right away but at high volumes this 
>>> CREATE statement must create only unique entries and those entries must 
>>> match this qualifier which uses insensitive case
>>> 
>>> I figure the pattern should be to create an object with a DB level 
>>> constraint such that a duplicate raises an error, upon catching that error, 
>>> I can simply fetch again and return the one, single EO representing that 
>>> record
>>> 
>>> When I tried regular constraints I did not see a way to replicate the 
>>> required logic, so I found some advise about triggers and some other things 
>>> I didn’t fully understand.
>>> 
>>> I realize usernames generally have this kind of issue, so I figure this is 
>>> a design pattern that is hardly unique to us and I should get advice!
>>> 
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