Hi Ricardo,

On 2011-07-07, at 1:52 PM, Ricardo J. Parada wrote:

> Hi All,
> 
> I feel odd asking this.  It used to be that if I had a to-many relationship 
> named "foos" and the relationship was setup in the entity modeler to own the 
> destination objects, then removing objects from the relationship would cause 
> EOF to delete the objects from the database during saveChanges().  I have the 
> inverse to-one setup with a delete rule of Nullify.  

What is the delete rule for the to-many?  I think I needs to be No Action.  
Owns Destination, Propagates Primary Key, and the Delete Rules have 
interactions which are not easy to remember.


Chuck


> However, when I saveChanges() the Foo objects removed from the to-many are 
> being updated to set the inverse to-one with null which blows up because the 
> database does not accept a null value to avoid orphan Foo objects.  
> 
> I'm using Wonder and I see EOGenerator generating the following method in my 
> _Parent.java :
> 
>     public void deleteFoosRelationship(Foo object) {
>         removeObjectFromBothSidesOfRelationshipWithKey(object, "foos");
>     }
> 
> which I think is correct.  But EOF is not doing the right thing when I 
> saveChanges().  Has this changed or something?
> 
> If I go to the entity modeler and uncheck "Owns Destination" then EOGenerator 
> generates the following:
> 
>     public void deleteFoosRelationship(Foo object) {
>         removeObjectFromBothSidesOfRelationshipWithKey(object, "foos");
>         editingContext().deleteObject(object);
>     }
> 
> Notice the addition of editingContext().deleteObject(object).  So that fixes 
> my problem but I could swear that EOF used to delete the objects from the 
> to-many during saveChanges() when the to-many was setup with "Owns 
> Destination" without me requiring to do editingContext().deleteObject(object).
> 
> Anybody care to confirm or has some ideas?
> 
> Thanks,
> Ricardo
> 
> 
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