Hi Johannes, What you consider basic functionality can actually be not so basic.
Consider this scenario of some objects: A1 ->> B1, B2, B3 A2 ->> B4, B5, B6, B7 Then you create a new collection: C = B1, B2, B5, B7 What then happens when you call: A1.setB(C) Should it automatically try to reconcile all changes amongst all objects in the object graph (removing objects from A1 and A2) or is this perhaps indicative of a programming error because you mixed two object relationship graphs together? Also, what should happen to B3? Should it be deleted or orphaned? The way Cayenne is currently set up, you have to manually do that, which is perhaps cumbersome, but more exacting. mrg On Fri, Dec 19, 2014 at 9:00 AM, Johannes <jotpe....@gmail.com> wrote: > > Good point, I thought reverse relationships are refreshed autimatically. > My expectation was based on the note "... from any kind of > relationship..." at http://cayenne.apache.org/docs/3.0/relationships.html > I will replace the methods! > > I think you are an advanced user, if you only use your own templates and > answer to dev mailinglist. But to offer such a BASIC functionality in > normal generated classes would be a nice service for new users. > > Thanks Johannes > > Am 18.12.2014 um 21:12 schrieb Mike Kienenberger: > > As I said before, I think you need to call > > removeToManyTarget("${rel.Name}", obj, true); instead of > > iterator.remove() and removeAll(), and then you need to call > > addToManyTarget() instead of addAll(). Otherwise, you are losing the > > reverse relationship changes. > > > > But the rest seems ok. > > > > I'm not saying that adding setList() to the default template is a good > > idea, though. I think having it in your custom template is good > > enough. > > > > I do everything with custom templates and rarely use the default > > cayenne templates. > > > > > > On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 2:58 PM, Johannes <jotpe....@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hello, > >> > >> following the conversation from > >> > http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/cayenne-user/201412.mbox/%3C548BDF97.1040104%40gmail.com%3E > >> there seems to be a common need for having a new method next to > >> addXXX, removeXXX a setXXXs in generated classes from CayenneModeler. > >> > >> I created a first draft > >> > https://github.com/jotpe/cayenne/commit/6627c09936285c7650d69f44a95ba2f4b118f2b6 > >> > >> Would anybody be so nice to review it? I'm not sure if these lines can > >> run in every environment without trouble. What about tests? > >> > >> Best regards Johannes > >> > >
