On Nov 11, 2008, at 4:34 PM, <lalong1@charter.net>

<lalong1@charter.net> wrote:

> We would like to append a record into the primary biz obj from a

> dataset

> gathered from another bizobj.

>

> We are trying the following

>

> myrec=bizobj.getDataSet()

> self.Form.PrimaryBizobj._CurrentCursor._records += myrec

>

> But when we do, the bizobj validate record nor any other methods

> seem to

> fire when saving.

>

> Are we going about this the wrong way?

The naming standard in Python says that any attribute or method that

begins with '_' means that it is an internal implementation, and

should not be accessed outside of the class. While you've changed the

recordset, you've bypassed several internal details that keep track of

the state of the various records.

So let me understand what you need to do, and perhaps we could add a

simple way to do it to the framework. You want to pass a dataset to a

bizobj, and have it add that dataset to its current dataset? Seems

simple enough, but a couple of questions: what should happen if the

columns are not the same? What about if a PK is duplicated? Should the

validation fire at the time they are added, or when they are saved?

What about field-level validation? Can we assume that these records

are all new, i.e., all INSERTs into the database?

-- Ed Leafe