I thought this was just public because CDO and DC are in different
packages. The DC needs to notify the CDO when there's been a
registerObject or createAndRegisterObject event.
On 9/14/05, Kevin Menard <kmenar..ervprise.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Is there any reason why the aforementioned method does not register
> the CDO with the DC? I mean, is there any point in calling
> setDataContext() with a DC that you don't want the CDO registered with?
>
> I just spent a few hours debugging a problem where setDataContext()
> was called with a valid DC. This seemed to satisfy a lot of things
> in Cayenne, presumably because it just does a simple DC check.
> However, BatchQueryUtils#buildSnapshotForInsert() which calls
> getObjectId() on this CDO. Of course, the objectId is null, which
> causes Cayenne to crap out.
>
> So, anyway, something here seems inconsistent.
>
> If this is in fact the way it's intended to work for whatever reason,
> I'll simply open up an RFE for better exception handling in this
> case. Without having the source available, it's really hard to
> decipher what went wrong. A simple ("NPE: objectId is null in
> object" + relname) would have gone a long way in this case.
>
> --
> Kevin
>
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