Using Home Objects in Action Beans

[sandman202]

I have 2 home objects that when I create a new instance extra fields are automatically populated.

     @Override
     protected InFiles createInstance() {
          InFiles inFiles = super.createInstance();
          inFiles.setStatus(InFileStatus.NEW);
          inFiles.setCreatedOn(new Date());
          return inFiles;
     }

I am wanting to write an action bean importing/parsing data into these entites. Is possible to write the bean in such a way as to use the home objects?

I would rather use the home objects since I would like to keep  all initialization information in one place rather than multiple places. This is incase I later come back and add more fields to he entites.

[sandman202]

I realized on my way home I could set the default values for these in the constructor on the entity.

[damianharvey.damianharvey.gmail.com]

Or you can just set them in the Home Bean by overriding either createInstance() or create() depending on your use case.

Cheers,

Damian.

[sandman202]

I guess you didn't read my post, because I originally had the defaults in the Home Object (see code included). I am wanting to create an action bean where I could use multiple home objects, since that is where the default settings are defined.

The action bean will be adding one to many records for each home object I use.

I started making changes last night to move the defaults to the entity under the constructor.

[damianharvey.damianharvey.gmail.com]

Guilty as charged. I'm a serial skimmer.

Apologies.

Damian.

[sandman202]

No problem.