Re: Question about "To Many" relationships hooks in ERRest
Re: Question about "To Many" relationships hooks in ERRest
- Subject: Re: Question about "To Many" relationships hooks in ERRest
- From: Pascal Robert <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2012 20:47:48 -0400
I think it was a problem in the past, but right now with my one-line fix, it works fine when I create or update a blog entry, and if I set setAnonymousUpdateEnabled(true) on the categories, it creates the category as expected.
I'm going to commit it to the integration branch, if someone find a test case that my fix breaks, please say so.
> It was my understanding that many-to-many relationships had to be handled "manually" due to them not being processed correctly by the framework.
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> -G
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> On Jun 18, 2012, at 7:52 AM, Pascal Robert wrote:
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>> I'm working on my WOWODC slides, and I'm doing something that I didn't do for many months: updating a 1:N (in fact, it's a N:N with a flatten relationship). So I have a blog entry which can have multiple categories, and I was doing an update to a blog post to add some categories, with:
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>> PUT /cgi-bin/WebObjects/WOWODCBlog.woa/ra/blogEntries/2.json HTTP/1.1
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>> { "id":2,"type":"BlogEntry", categories: [ {id : 1}, {id : 2} ] }
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>> Problem is: the categories were not linked to the blog post. Worse, if I make the link between a category and the blog entry with a "manual" EOF call, and after I try the same PUT call, it was emptying the relationship! So after debugging, I found that the problem was here:
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>> ERXRestRequestNode.java.updateObjectWithFilter
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>> I was getting into:
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>> if (toManyNode.children().count() == 0 && ERXRestUtils.isPrimitive(toManyNode.value())) {
>> if (lockedRelationship) {
>> childObj = null;
>> } else {
>> childObj = toManyNode.value();
>> }
>> }
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>> toManyNode.id was ok (returns the id I'm passing in), but value() is empty, so I was not reaching the logic below in the method that is adding the objects into the relationship. I fixed it by removed the call to 'toManyNode.value()' and adding :
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>> childObj = IERXRestDelegate.Factory.delegateForClassDescription(destinationClassDescription).objectOfEntityWithID(destinationClassDescription, id, context);
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>> Since then, works perfectly. But since that code was added last year (in commit 35a78ceea4f1c1cb713884d3f02b3f8d048b452c), I'm wondering is my fix is ok or it's me who do something wrong.
>>
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