I have created a patch for this problem ( http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TUSCANY-873) which solves the immediate problem I have in PHP SDO and passes the PHP SDO tests that exist at the moment. However I'm not too comfortable with it because it is used by numerous parts of data object API function which looks complicated enough already.
What I have done is create a internal version of the getPropertyIndex() method called getPropertyIndexInternal() which creates a new property in the data object if the property doesn't already exist and the data object type is open. I use this new method whenever is seems that getPropertyIndex was used during the setting of properties. Can an C++ SDO expert take a look at this and see if this looks OK. Happy to discuss alternative approaches. Regards Simon
