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How to trigger pre-update computation on parent? [message #869324] Thu, 03 May 2012 04:26 Go to next message
Christophe Bismuth is currently offline Christophe Bismuth
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Hi,

Here is the simplified legacy data model: a one-to-many relationship between Invoice and Payment (an invoice can have many payments). Besides, the Invoice entity has a persistent field containing the sum of all associated payments.
This sum is computed in a preWrite API called from @PreCreate and @PreUpdate hooks of the Invoice entity.

The question is: what is the cleanest way to trigger the invoice sum computation when one of its payments created or updated?

I've set a CascadeType.MERGE on both sides of this bidirectional association. But to get the @PreUpdate API called on the Invoice entity I have to manually trigger to sum of its payments.
I wish the only update of a payment automatically triggered the update of its associated invoice.

Thanks,
Chris

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Re: How to trigger pre-update computation on parent? [message #869528 is a reply to message #869324] Thu, 03 May 2012 10:39 Go to previous messageGo to next message
James Sutherland is currently offline James Sutherland
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It may be best to handle this in your object model. When a Payment is added to your Invoice update its sum in its addPayment() method.

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Re: How to trigger pre-update computation on parent? [message #869746 is a reply to message #869528] Fri, 04 May 2012 03:56 Go to previous message
Christophe Bismuth is currently offline Christophe Bismuth
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Thank you James.
I totally agree with you, but the domain model contains a bunch of legacy business code gathered in a single API of each entity.
Unfortunately without enough unit tests it would be too risky to split it in the target API.

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