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- From: jacobsen@tpki.toppoint.de (Joerg Jacobsen)
- Subject: customized adaptor and 'update'
- Organization: Toppoint Mailbox e.V.
- Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 21:46:52 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec16.214652.25134@tpki.toppoint.de>
- Lines: 58
-
- Hi Guys,
-
- don't seem to be able to solve this by myself...
-
- I'm currently writing a customized adaptor and have a hard time getting
- the 'update' mechanism to work. This is the scenario:
-
- Let's say you have a DBRecordList object set up like in the 'AddressBook'
- example. Excerpt from Controller.m:
-
- recordList = [[DBRecordList alloc] init];
-
- /* A unique key is needed if you want to update or insert new
- * data via the record list into the database. If no key is defined,
- * the data retrieved via the record list is read-only.
- */
- keyList = (List *)[[List alloc] init];
- [keyList addObject:authId];
- [recordList setKeyProperties:keyList];
- [keyList free];
-
- [recordList setProperties:propertyList ofSource:authorEntity];
- [recordList setDelegate:self];
-
- [recordList addRetrieveOrder:DB_AscendingOrder for:lastName];
- [recordList addRetrieveOrder:DB_AscendingOrder for:firstName];
- [recordList fetchUsingQualifier:nil];
-
- Then you do a bunch of changes to the records of this list and finally
- execute
-
- [recordList saveModifications];
-
- But instead of just letting the adaptor quitly modify its data source
- the recordList's delegate gets bugged with a DBFailureCode
-
- DBRecordKeyNotUnique.
-
- (In my DBModel I have set the authId property also to be 'unique key'.
- Needless to say that my table does _not_ have duplicate keys.)
-
- I know that my description of the problem leaves room for a lot of
- speculation but maybe it still resembles some pattern?
-
- Question:
- Should I hold my adaptor responsible for this symptom or could the
- DBModel already screw things up like this (unfortunatly I have neither
- Oracle nor Sybase to check it out)?
-
- thanks,
-
- Joerg Jacobsen.
-
-
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