Hi Robert,
I'm still looking at the stuff for CAY-597. Unfortunately, I've been
stuck in a winter airport delay loop, seriously impacting what I can get
done. I should have something in a few days though.
As for the rest of the message, if you really think it's something that
needs to be changed, open up a JIRA so we can track. If it's something
that won't be changed, you'll know ;-)
-- Kevin> -----Original Message----- > From: robert zeigler [mailto:robert.zeigle..mail.com] On > Behalf Of Robert Zeigler > Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2007 7:00 PM > To: de..ayenne.apache.org > Subject: more XMLMappingDescriptor woes. :) > > XMLMappingDescriptor chokes on decoding collections for > CayenneDataObjects. > Cause: > 1) CayenneDataObject.readProperty returns null (instead > of an empty > list) for collection properties when the ObjectContext of the > CayenneDataObject is null > 2) XMLMappingDescriptor is using an instanceof operator > to determine whether a property is a collection or not. > > I consider this more of a problem with the readProperty > method of CayenneDataObject than an issue with > XMLMappingDescriptor. It would be nice if readProperty > returned an empty list for to-many relationships, even when > there's no data/object context. > > Thoughts? > > For now, I've skirted the issue by having all of my data > objects extend a custom superclass, overriding the > readProperty, and using a bit of reflection to return an > empty ToManyList when the returned value is supposed to be a > collection but the ObjectContext is null. > It seems to work... but I'm not sure of the repercussions of > doing this...? > > Robert >
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