I should plug my usual "check out 3.0 lifecycle callbacks" mantra :-)
http://cwiki.apache.org/CAYDOC/lifecycle-callbacks.html
of course to get this functionality, you'd need to build Cayenne from
SVN. Hopefully we'll restore the nightly builds someday. And even
better - graduate from Apache Incubator and start posting official
milestone releases of 3.0 :-)
Andrus
On Nov 27, 2006, at 2:11 PM, Matt Kerr wrote:
> trying to recall .. so, i would double check this, but --
>
>> Perhaps this is because of my WO/EOF background, but I had always
>> assumed that modifying anything in the validate* methods would be a
>> Bad Thing and never tried doing it.
>
> is this because WO/EOF specifically guides you *not* to put any
> side-effect code into the validate* methods.
>
> but i want to say this was ok .. since there were other delegate
> methods to tidy up before validateFor* was invoked ..
>
> (now - if i could just remember which one .. hmm. is that right?)
>
>
>
>> I can't say I ever read it in regards to Cayenne, but it feels
>> like the right thing to me.
>> Not sure why it changed in behavior, though.
>
>
> in cayenne -- there is no equivalent delegate .. and i believe the
> right/best way to handle this situation is to implement the side-
> effects in validateFor*().
>
>
> -mk
>
>
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