Bruce,
yes, I expressed myself a bit ambiguous, as frequently one might add .. ;-).
Yes, you are definitely right that it's not the key
generator principles should be changed but the way SQLEngine and a key
generator of this kind play it out. I'd really like to
see a initial patch for this, as simple as it might be be.
Werner
On Wed, 11 May 2005 09:41:03 -0600, Bruce Snyder wrote:
>On 5/9/05, Werner Guttmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> I think that it should not be too hard to modify the way a key generator
>> is being called so that existing identity information is passed along at
>> invocation time.
>
>Maybe I misunderstand your statement above, Werner, but I certainly
>would not make the default functionality operate in this manner. The
>notion of key generation (in all capacities, not just within Castor)
>is based on the fact the *only* the key generator assigns identities.
>This generate-a-key-unless-one-already-exists strategy is very
>different and should be implemented as such - a different strategy.
>That being said, I think modifications could be made to the SQLEngine
>et al. to allow this strategy to work.
>
>Bruce
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