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Adrian Crum commented on OFBIZ-4949: ------------------------------------ I agree that the brute-force approach is not a good idea. I think a more worthwhile change would be to support UEL expressions in the class. Then you could initialize fields to null, now, etc. > Add a new attribute for entity-engine-xml tag, set-other-fields-to-null= > true, if it exists at the beginning data file, all updates will set to null > all fields not detailed in the file > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: OFBIZ-4949 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-4949 > Project: OFBiz > Issue Type: Sub-task > Components: framework > Affects Versions: SVN trunk > Reporter: Olivier Heintz > Priority: Minor > Attachments: OFBIZ-4949.patch, OFBIZ-4949.patch, OFBIZ-4949.patch > > > This enhancement is useful when a entity is load by reader (ex: seed) and > sometime, it could be modify in data file. If a field is change from a value > to null, currently this modification will not be done in the next load. > For portletWidget, entity PortalPortal have a lot of field with potential > default value, so sometime, first release use some field and when it's > reviewed and corrected, some field are changed to null to use the default > value (to follow best practice). > This enhancement will be very useful for portletData file. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira