I am not comfortable with adding a new public ObjectContext method that will be hard to remove in the future. And I suspect it *will* be removed/renamed. I know this is bad situation, as likely it won't get implemented quickly (and most certainly not on 3.0 branch), and you would want to use it right away... Maybe for now you'll create your own utility or a DataContext subclass and we put the request in Jira?

Andrus


On Jul 9, 2010, at 6:01 PM, Michael Gentry wrote:
Our particular use-case is pulling objects into a child DC to edit and
isolate changes.  Something like:

User localUser = childContext.localObject(user.getObjectId(), user);

Just seems like that can be simplified a bit for the developers.

Thanks,

mrg


On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 10:50 AM, Andrus Adamchik <[email protected] > wrote:
Actually "localObject" is too loaded, performing a set of vaguely related distinct tasks... It has to be split into multiple methods (and IIRC we discussed it briefly some time ago). This particular variety is closer to "merge", vs. "localObject(id, null)" which is something like "locate"... Since this is rather visible public API and there are some caveats, we need to give it some more thought I think, identifying all the scenarios before
creating appropriate methods.

Andrus


On Jul 9, 2010, at 5:36 PM, Michael Gentry wrote:

Would it make sense to add:

public Persistent localObject(Persistent source)
{
 return localObject(source.getObjectId(), source)
}

to DataContext and friends?  We are starting to use that a bit here
and it seems like it would be much simpler to me.

Thanks,

mrg





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