Thanks, I'll try that. I guess I should have mentioned that I am writing to a DB table owned by another system and they want me to insert the records in a specific order. Unfortunately, I have no control over the DB table design. They actually do have a sequence number column in the DB table, but are not using it.
Thanks! Dawn On 1/12/09 5:03 PM, "Kieran Kelleher" <[email protected]> wrote: > First thought out of my head would be to try using > primaryKeyForTransaction() (spelled sth like that) in Wonder's > ERXGenericRecord in awakeFromInsertion ..... if awakeFromInsertion is > too early to call that, then look for some of the other State > Transition methods in Wonder's ERXGenericRecord that can be used to > trigger that method call to generate and assign the primary key before > the record is ever saved. Now if never saved you will have used up a > PK that won't be reallocated .... but who cares if you are not going > beyond 2.1 billion or wtahever the mac INT is. > > On Jan 12, 2009, at 4:17 PM, Dawn Lockhart wrote: > >> I am creating new EO objects and I need them to be saved to the DB >> in the >> same order that they were created so their primary keys will be in >> the order >> created. It seems like when I call saveChanges on the editing >> context that >> the records are just being saved to the DB all willy nilly. >> >> It looks like the only way to enforce this is to do multiple calls to >> saveChanges which I'd like to avoid. >> >> Is there some way to have it save a group of objects in the order >> created? >> >> TIA, >> Dawn >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. >> Webobjects-dev mailing list ([email protected]) >> Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: >> http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/webobjects-dev/kieran_lists%40mac.com >> >> This email sent to [email protected] > _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Webobjects-dev mailing list ([email protected]) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/webobjects-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to [email protected]
