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3) Eclipse just sucks… in general. I mean, it’s a tall order, taking all those “dead” files on disk and then puffing them up like the “living dead” in a cool IDE so that you can see “who calls who” and “refactor” etc. But It’s easy to get out of sync or just to have problems. If you are running EntityModeler on its own (Can you do that? I know RuleModeler can… I’m not sure about EntityModeler) then you better “refresh” all your projects and “clean” all your projects after you make an edit and save from EntityModeler. It’s what I have to do when using any external tool. And sometimes, even when I’m totally in the Eclipse universe something invariably will screw the pooch and I need to “refresh” “clean all” and sometimes restart Eclipse. I call it the “Eclipse dance."

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On Mar 23, 2014, at 11:58 AM, Ângelo Andrade Cirino <email@hidden> wrote:

Hi Aaron,

Thank you for your prompt answer. Unfortunately none of the suggestions worked.

1) I can't find any combination of double or single apostrophe that will work. A similar MySQL SELECT statement is as simple as this

select Party.id as partyID, (case status
when 0 then 'Active'

when 1 then 'Inactive'
end) as fullStatus from Party;

Even this simple derived attribute that returns a constant won't work (from the plist entity file):

{
columnName = fullStatus;

definition = "'Full Status'";
name = fullStatus;

prototypeName = varchar16;
},

with the following error:

IllegalStateException: sqlStringForAttribute: attempt to generate SQL for attribute 'fullStatus' on entity 'Party' with undefined column name. You must define a column name for this attribute before attempting a database operation.

2) The read format option didn't work either since the attribute is an integer number and the return value is a string. I attempted this format:

if(%P,'Active','Inactive')

and it resulted in this error:

JDBCAdaptorException: Invalid value for getInt() - 'Inactive'

However, this works just fine as a read format:

if(%P,2*%P,5*%P)

But I am stubborn and think that a derived attribute is a desirable attribute. I would like to use it for more complex operations, for example involving concatenation of strings in related entities.

Anyway, trying to figure out what is happening, it occurred to me that my Party entity is a custom class, so I tried a non-custom class with a simple entity to see if the derived attribute would work. And it worked. My simple tentative entity is this:

{
attributes = (

{columnName = code; name = code; prototypeName = intNumber; },
{

columnName = fullStatus;
definition = "case code when 0 then 'Active' when 1 then 'Inactive' end";

isReadOnly = Y;
name = fullStatus;
prototypeName = varchar16;
userInfo = {"_EntityModeler" = {generateSource = NO; }; };

},
{allowsNull = N; name = id; prototypeName = id; }
);
attributesUsedForLocking = (code, id);
className = "er.extensions.eof.ERXGenericRecord";

classProperties = (code, fullStatus);
externalName = Status;
fetchSpecificationDictionary = {};
name = Status;
primaryKeyAttributes = (id);

}

But this isn't a solution for me, since my entity will have a lot of business logic that demands a custom class. Perhaps I should set my Party entity as a ERXGenericRecord and then subclass it to implement the business logic.

The question is, why does EO expect a column for a derived attribute for a custom class and not for a ERXGenericRecord?

By the way, the original Apple EOModeler User Guide doesn't state that a derived attribute will not work for a custom class nor does the documentation states that a derived attribute should be modeled for a generic record.

Angelo

2014-03-23 1:01 GMT-03:00 Aaron Rosenzweig <email@hidden>:

Hi Angelo,

Couple things to try:

1) Remove the single apostrophes surrounding “status” and try again. It is possible that it isn’t parsing properly… don’t column names need to have “double apostrophes” ??? Perhaps MySQL is lax about that but still… Either use no apostrophe or use a “double apostrophe” meaning a single character the shift-apostrophe key. If it is a single apostrophe that is a String in SQL.

2) Try a different way. Remove all the code you have in the derived part and make this a normal EOAttribute. Put “STATUS” in there by itself. Now go to the “advanced” tab and type what you want in the “Read Format” and check the “read only” box. In the read format you want to use %P for your columnName so you’ll want something like this:

case %P when 0 then 'Active' when 1 then 'Inactive’ end

Honestly, I almost always use the #2 way and never the “derived” way because it is more flexible. I like the idea that I define the column in one box and in another I write something complex but refer to it with %P.

Try it out and report back.

Aaron Rosenzweig / Chat 'n Bike
e: email@hidden t: (301) 956-2319

References:
	>Derived attribute problem (From: Ângelo Andrade Cirino <email@hidden>)
	>Re: Derived attribute problem (From: Aaron Rosenzweig <email@hidden>)
	>Re: Derived attribute problem (From: Ângelo Andrade Cirino <email@hidden>)