Re: one-to-many problem

From: Mike Kienenberger (mkienen..mail.com)
Date: Mon May 12 2008 - 19:16:10 EDT

  • Next message: Scott Anderson: "RE: one-to-many problem"

    Yeah, in retrospect it won't work because command.name isn't a pk.

    http://cayenne.apache.org/doc12/to-dep-pk-checkbox.html should explain
    it fairly well.

    On 5/12/08, Scott Anderson <sanderso..irvana.com> wrote:
    > Can't check the box. Can you explain what that does? I read the
    > documentation for it about 100 times and I still can't make heads or
    > tails of it.
    >
    >
    > -----Original Message-----
    > From: Mike Kienenberger [mailto:mkienen..mail.com]
    > Sent: Monday, May 12, 2008 6:57 PM
    > To: use..ayenne.apache.org
    > Subject: Re: one-to-many problem
    >
    > One thing you could try is to make command.name -> command_alias.name
    > to-dependent-key=true if it's not already set that way. Don't know if
    > it'll help, though.
    >
    >
    > On 5/12/08, Scott Anderson <sanderso..irvana.com> wrote:
    > > I've got a table `command which has:
    > > `id` int PK
    > > `name` varchar(32) UNIQUE
    > >
    > > and a table `command_alias` which has
    > > `alias` varchar(32) PK
    > > `name` varchar(32) FK REF `command`.`name`
    > >
    > > Take special note how `command_alias`.`name` is a FK to
    > `command`.`name`
    > > (unique field) and not `command`.`id` (the PK)
    > >
    > > The following code chokes:
    > > public static CommandAlias create(Command command, String
    > alias)
    > > {
    > > CommandAlias ca =
    > > DatabaseContext.getContext().newObject(CommandAlias.class);
    > > ca.setAlias(alias);
    > > ca.setToCommand(command);
    > > command.addToAliases(ca);
    > > try {
    > > ca.updateRow();
    > > return ca;
    > > } catch(Exception e) {
    > > Out.exception(e);
    > > return null;
    > > }
    > > }
    > >
    > > With the error:
    > >
    > > May 12, 2008 6:15:55 PM org.apache.cayenne.access.QueryLogger
    > logQuery
    > > INFO: INSERT INTO command_alias (alias, name) VALUES (?, ?)
    > > INFO: [batch bind: 1->alias:'aa', 2->name:NULL]
    > > May 12, 2008 6:15:55 PM org.apache.cayenne.access.QueryLogger
    > > logQueryError
    > > INFO: *** error.
    > > java.sql.SQLIntegrityConstraintViolationException: Column 'NAME'
    > cannot
    > > accept a NULL value.
    > >
    > >
    > > I am 100% sure that I am not sending a null Command object. I believe
    > > this stems from the fact that the relationship is not a FK-PK
    > > relationship, but a FK-UNIQUE relationship, as evidenced by the fact
    > > that if I make the `command_alias`.`name` field visible in the code,
    > and
    > > set do ca.setName(command.getName()) then this error does not occur.
    > >
    > > I am using a 3.0 snapshot from March.
    > >
    > >
    > > And here's the relevant sections of my mapping file (I removed some
    > > unrelated fields from command):
    > >
    > > <db-entity name="command">
    > > <db-attribute name="id" type="INTEGER"
    > > isPrimaryKey="true" isGenerated="true" isMandatory="true"
    > length="11"/>
    > > <db-attribute name="name" type="VARCHAR"
    > > isMandatory="true" length="32"/>
    > > </db-entity>
    > > <db-entity name="command_alias">
    > > <db-attribute name="alias" type="VARCHAR"
    > > isPrimaryKey="true" isMandatory="true" length="32"/>
    > > <db-attribute name="name" type="VARCHAR" length="32"/>
    > > </db-entity>
    > > <obj-entity name="Command" className="net.bnubot.db.Command"
    > > dbEntityName="command"
    > superClassName="net.bnubot.db.CustomDataObject">
    > > <obj-attribute name="name" type="java.lang.String"
    > > db-attribute-path="name"/>
    > > </obj-entity>
    > > <obj-entity name="CommandAlias"
    > > className="net.bnubot.db.CommandAlias" dbEntityName="command_alias"
    > > superClassName="net.bnubot.db.CustomDataObject">
    > > <obj-attribute name="alias" type="java.lang.String"
    > > db-attribute-path="alias"/>
    > > </obj-entity>
    > > <db-relationship name="commandAliasArray" source="command"
    > > target="command_alias" toMany="true">
    > > <db-attribute-pair source="name" target="name"/>
    > > </db-relationship>
    > > <db-relationship name="toCommand" source="command_alias"
    > > target="command" toMany="false">
    > > <db-attribute-pair source="name" target="name"/>
    > > </db-relationship>
    > > <obj-relationship name="aliases" source="Command"
    > > target="CommandAlias" deleteRule="Deny"
    > > db-relationship-path="commandAliasArray"/>
    > > <obj-relationship name="toCommand" source="CommandAlias"
    > > target="Command" db-relationship-path="toCommand"/>
    > >
    >



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