> On Jan 26, 2015, at 1:47 PM, Johannes <jotpe....@gmail.com> wrote:
> My motivation for introducing the delete parameter was, that your are > not able to the treat orphaned objects with a delete rule. Please > correct me, if its wrong. The delete rule is called only, if you trigger > .delete(). If you just remove your relationship: no entity will be > deleted. I guess this is the deletion question Michael Gentry was > talking about. Good point about delete rules. You are absolutely right and I stand corrected. Perhaps one other way to deal with deletions, is to return a collection of removed objects from the method, leaving it up to the caller to deal with them: // sync... List<? extends DataObject> removed = o.setToManyTarget(Artist.PAINTINGS.getName(), newPaintings, true); // delete ... or not // o.getObjectContext().deleteObjects(removed); Andrus
