Hi, Rhett.

> public void hasFoo()

This method will *never* return true or false ;-)

Hiran

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rhett Sutphin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, February 26, 2003 3:05 PM
Subject: Re: [castor-dev] Numeric null value


> Hi,
> 
> On Wednesday, February 26, 2003, at 04:25  AM, Arnaud BOULAY wrote:
> > How can I tell Castor XML/JDO to store null value for numeric fields
> > (int, float) and not 0 if the attribute is not set.
> 
> You can define a "has" method for the field (this will work for any 
> type, not just primitives).  For example, if you have a field named 
> foo, write a method with this signature:
> 
> public void hasFoo()
> 
> If this method returns false, it is equivalent to having a get method 
> that returns null.  Unfortunately, you are constrained to use a method 
> with a name that follows this pattern -- there is not, at present, a 
> has-method mapping attribute.
> 
> Rhett
> 
> --
> Rhett Sutphin
> Research Assistant (Software)
> Coordinated Laboratory for Computational Genomics
>    and the Center for Macular Degeneration
> University of Iowa - Iowa City, IA 52242 - USA
> 4111 MEBRF - email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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