Isn’t init() the Wonder Preferred Method ™? :-)

Tim Worman
UCLA GSE&IS


> On Feb 11, 2015, at 8:38 AM, Chuck Hill <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> On 2015-02-11, 8:26 AM, "Theodore Petrosky" wrote:
> 
> so are you suggesting that awakeFromInsertion is the correct place to assign 
> these entities?
> 
> That is a more correct place.
> 
> 
> I actually assumed that there was an editingContext at this point. And you 
> know what they say about assuming.
> 
> My interpretation of “willInsert” is that there is an EC, but the EO has not 
> been inserted into it yet.  And EO that is not in an EC is a bomb.
> 
> 
> If I put my code in awake from insertion, I then call 
> “editingContext().saveChanges” at the end?
> 
> I am NOT a fan of having EOs call saveChanges().  That is possibly OK but not 
> something that I would do.   All of this seems like something that belongs in 
> an Controller object.
> 
> 
> Chuck
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Feb 11, 2015, at 11:21 AM, Chuck Hill <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> Doing anything to an EO when it is not in an EC (e.g. Before it is inserted) 
>> seems like a Very Bad Idea.  EOF is not expecting this.
>> 
>> Chuck
>> 
>> 
>> On 2015-02-11, 8:17 AM, "Theodore Petrosky" wrote:
>> 
>> but (and I will test this assumption) isn’t awakeFromInsertion called AFTER 
>> the insertion? and willInsert Before?
>> 
>> I need to assign these relationships BEFORE the main EO is inserted. So in 
>> my case, I want to relate all the BOOKS that belong to the Show, then assign 
>> the PrimaryPlayer to the books.
>> 
>> As I said, I will confirm the order of events with some tests.
>> 
>> The next question is the exception. If two people are marked PrimaryMusician 
>> ( which is an operator error ), I want to throw an exception and tell the 
>> user, “Sorry, could not assign person to Viola as two people are marked 
>> “Primary Player”! (Jane Doe, Peter Simpson)
>> 
>> 
>> On Feb 11, 2015, at 10:49 AM, Samuel Pelletier <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> Theodore,
>> I think your code would be in a better place in the awakeFromInsertion 
>> instead of willInsert.
>> awakeFromInsertion is called only once when the EO is created. My 
>> understanding is willInsert is called when a EO will be saved the first time 
>> by an EOEditingcontext.
>> Samuel
>> Le 2015-02-10 à 09:13, Theodore Petrosky <[email protected]> a écrit :
>> I am in the process of creating an example d2w app. Basically it manages 
>> Shows and the People that play them. the end result is a report for any 
>> given week and specific show, who played what book?
>> So I can create shows, people, instruments. and I am looking at the Events. 
>> An event is a performance. It needs a show, and date/time (there could be 
>> multiple performances on any given day).
>> So I create an Event, and I need to pick up all the books that belong to the 
>> Show and the people that are the Primary players of the book.
>> My solution was to use the willInsert() in the EO:
>> @Override
>> public void willInsert() {
>> super.willInsert();
>> EOQualifier bookForPrimaryPersonQualifier = Person.CURRENT.eq(true);
>> bookForPrimaryPersonQualifier = ERXQ.and(bookForPrimaryPersonQualifier, 
>> Person.PERSON_BOOKS.dot(PersonBook.IS_PRIMARY_PLAYER.eq(true)));
>> EOQualifier booksAssignedToShowQualifier = Book.SHOW.eq(this.show()); //all 
>> the books for this show
>> NSArray<Book> booksForThisEvent = Book.fetchBooks(editingContext(), 
>> booksAssignedToShowQualifier, null);
>> for (Book aBook: booksForThisEvent) {
>> bookForPrimaryPersonQualifier = ERXQ.and(bookForPrimaryPersonQualifier, 
>> Person.PERSON_BOOKS.dot(PersonBook.BOOK.eq(aBook)));
>> Person aPerson = Person.fetchPerson(this.editingContext(), 
>> bookForPrimaryPersonQualifier);
>> if (aPerson != null) { //if there is a primary person applied to this book, 
>> assign him/her to the EventBook else it's null!
>> EventBook eo = EventBook.createEventBook(this.show().editingContext(), 
>> aBook, this);
>> eo.setPersonRelationship(aPerson);
>> } else {
>> EventBook.createEventBook(this.show().editingContext(), aBook, this); 
>> }
>> bookForPrimaryPersonQualifier = Person.CURRENT.eq(true); //resetting the 
>> qualifier to base case
>> }
>> }
>> Am I stepping on myself doing this in the EO and willInsert?
>> and
>> I need help with throwing an exception. if there are two people assigned as 
>> the primary player of a given book, of course it blows up.
>> Person aPerson = Person.fetchPerson(this.editingContext(), 
>> bookForPrimaryPersonQualifier);
>> Assuming that the willInsert() method is okay to do, what’s the correct way 
>> to surround this with a try/catch and throw the exception. Obviously, if I 
>> just surround it with the try/catch like this:
>> Person aPerson = null;
>> try {
>> aPerson = Person.fetchPerson(this.editingContext(), 
>> bookForPrimaryPersonQualifier);
>> } catch (Exception e) {
>> // TODO Auto-generated catch block
>> e.printStackTrace();
>> }
>> the insertion will succeed assigning no one to the offending book.
>> I can only hope that willInsert passes muster!
>> Ted
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