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On Oct 27, 2009, at 4:40 PM, Lon Varscsak wrote:

Try:

Create an Order and OrderItem and insert both into an editing context.
Then add the item to the order using order.addObjectToBothSidesOfRelationshipWithKey(item, "items").
Then call editingContext.processRecentChanges()
Then removeObjectFromBothSidesOfRelationshipWithKey(item, "items") to remove the item.
Then save the editing context.

Here is the docs on that method:

Forces this EOEditingContext to process pending insertions, deletions, and updates. Normally, when objects are changed, the processing of the changes is deferred until the end of the current event. At that point, an EOEditingContext moves objects to the inserted, updated, and deleted lists, delete propagation is performed, undos are registered, and ObjectsChangedInStoreNotification and ObjectsChangedInEditingContextNotification are posted. You can use this method to explicitly force changes to be processed. An EOEditingContext automatically invokes this method on itself before performing certain operations such as saveChanges. This method does nothing in Java Client applications.

I'm struggling with how to describe why that works. :P

It should not work. processRecentChanges() is called during saveChanges() so it should not affect the item getting deleted. My feeling is that it not getting deleted after initial insertion is a bug.

It's been a long week and it's only Tuesday. My understanding (although I'm sure Chuck will correct me) is that that delete you're expecting to happen doesn't actually happen until the end of the event loop (at which time the editingContext's processRecentChanges method is called). Since you're doing two actions to the same relationship EOF loses the ability to know what the right thing to do in that situation (I can't remember the details as to why this is though...it made sense to me at one point :D).

Maybe you are thinking of needing to call processRecentChanges() so that the contents of relationships appear correctly in the UI before saveChanges is called.

There aren't many times where you're going to do what you describe (at least in my experience). Generally a user is going to insert/modify a record in one RR loop and then delete it in another and you wouldn't see what you're experiencing. However, when the time arises that you need to do that (for whatever reason) calling processRecentChanges after my first set of changes (in your case an insert) will make it so that EOF will automatically do the right thing for the second set of changes (in your case a delete).

I'm trying to help...but wait for Chuck Hill's response before you commit that to memory. :P

Done. :-)

Chuck

On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 4:20 PM, Ricardo J. Parada <email@hidden> wrote:
Resending with some typos fixed... :-)

Hi,

Let's say you have to-many relationship between two entities: Order <-->> OrderItem. The to-many relationship is called "items" and "Owns Desintation" is checked.

Test #1: Create an Order and OrderItem and insert both into an editing context. Then add the item to the order using order.addObjectToBothSidesOfRelationshipWithKey(item, "items"). Then removeObjectFromBothSidesOfRelationshipWithKey(item, "items") to remove the item. Then save the editing context.

Result: EOF attempts to save both the order and the orphan item.
Expected Result: I thought EOF would only attempt to save the order but not the item removed from the "items" to-many.

Test #2: Fetch an existing order with one item from the database. Then order.removeObjectFromBothSidesOfRelationshipWithKey(item, "items"). Save the editing context.

Result: EOF deletes the item that was removed from the "items" to-many.

Is this how it's supposed to work?

Thanks,
Ricardo

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References:
	>Re: removeObjectFromBothSidesOfRelationshipWithKey() question (From: "Ricardo J. Parada" <email@hidden>)
	>Re: removeObjectFromBothSidesOfRelationshipWithKey() question (From: Lon Varscsak <email@hidden>)
	>Re: removeObjectFromBothSidesOfRelationshipWithKey() question (From: Chuck Hill <email@hidden>)