Hello,

On 12/31/2002 01:21 PM, wgollino wrote:
> First of all, I have to say that I really like the metastorage app.
> Anything that makes work simpler is a Good Idea :)
>
> I've trying to test some metastorage generated classes, and I'm
> encountering a data consistency problem. I'm using the metastorage
> tarball from the website, not CVS.
>
> When I call the persist method on an object, and then try to retrieve
> all the objects, the newly added object hasn't been saved yet:
>
> $factory=....(init code)
>
> // create a new User object
> $user=$factory->createUser();

Here is the problem. PHP object assignment creates a new object. Change
this to:

$user=&$factory->createUser();


> Is there a way of avoiding having to re-initialize the factory between
> calls?

Initializing the factory is only needed once per script. It is meant to
setup the database connection so you can't get away with it. I could
make it a constructor but you would still need to call finalize at the
script end because PHP 4 does not support destructors except when using
some ugly hacks.

Hopefully when PHP 5 is out I can make Metastorage generate optionally
optimized code that is nicer.

Happy new year 2003 to everybody.

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Regards,
Manuel Lemos