Thanks for clarification. Now that I am looking closer at the patch,
I think it is not that simple either.
Andrus
On Apr 19, 2007, at 10:30 PM, Kevin Menard wrote:
> There are two things that come up.
>
> 1) Per my comment, I think we deliberately removed the ability to
> auto-register with a DC. Perhaps that was a bad decision, perhaps
> not.
> Now that I've been prodded a bit, I'll try to dig up the proper
> thread.
>
> 2) If we do decide that auto-registration may be a bad idea, then the
> problem is a result of trying to associate two unregistered DOs. This
> is something that needs to be addressed at a higher level and is
> slated
> for 3.0.x. It would be a big change to throw into a "stable" release.
>
> --
> Kevin
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Andrus Adamchik [mailto:andru..bjectstyle.org]
>> Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2007 8:49 AM
>> To: de..ayenne.apache.org
>> Subject: Fwd: [JIRA] Commented: (CAY-763) XML Deserialization
>> fails on relationships when using a mapping file
>>
>> Kevin,
>>
>> I can apply the patch attached by Robert. Any objections?
>> (honestly I haven't spent much time lately looking into XML
>> serialization, so I will only run our existing test suite to
>> ensure it passes)
>>
>> Andrus
>>
>>
>> Begin forwarded message:
>>> From: "Robert Zeigler (JIRA)" <de..ayenne.apache.org>
>>> Date: April 19, 2007 3:28:44 PM GMT+03:00
>>> To: andru..bjectstyle.org
>>> Subject: [JIRA] Commented: (CAY-763) XML Deserialization fails on
>>> relationships when using a mapping file
>>>
>>>
>>> [ https://issues.apache.org/cayenne/browse/CAY-763?
>>> page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-
>>> tabpanel#action_12292 ]
>>>
>>> Robert Zeigler commented on CAY-763:
>>> ------------------------------------
>>>
>>> Any progress on this front?
>>>
>>>
>>>> XML Deserialization fails on relationships when using a
>> mapping file
>>>>
>> --------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>>
>>>> Key: CAY-763
>>>> URL:
>> https://issues.apache.org/cayenne/browse/CAY-763
>>>> Project: Cayenne
>>>> Issue Type: Bug
>>>> Components: Cayenne Core Library
>>>> Affects Versions: 1.2 [STABLE], 2.0 [STABLE]
>>>> Environment: Any
>>>> Reporter: Robert Zeigler
>>>> Assigned To: Andrus Adamchik
>>>> Attachments: cay-763.patch
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> When XMLDecoder deserializes objects using a mapping
>> descriptor, no
>>>> objects are registered with a datacontext until after all objects
>>>> have been initialized. However, cayenne requires a non- null
>>>> datacontext to correctly handle relationships. Hence, dataobjects
>>>> using the default cayenne handling of relationships
>> (either to-one or
>>>> to-many) will be unable to deserialize objects from XML
>> (due to null
>>>> pointers).
>>>> In the case of a collection, the getXXX method will return
>> null, and
>>>> the XMLMappingDescriptor fails to "sense" a collection.
>>>> In the case of a to-one relationship, a NPE exception is thrown
>>>> trying to set the child property of the parent object.
>>>> The simplest way to fix this would be to make XMLMappingDescriptor
>>>> DataContext-capable (ie: will register objects with a
>> datacontext, if
>>>> one is provided, as the objects are created). I've done this in a
>>>> local copy of the code. I will attach a patch when I get a minute.
>>>
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