[Xdoclet-user] setData method in generated CMP class doesn't set "keyed" fields

[Saul F. <sj...@ya...>]

Hello all,

Dude...xdoclet (particularly ejbdoclet) is great.  Already saved me ~20
hours of mindnumbing ejb work.  Plus with the great docs was able to get
generation up, running, reading and integrating into my ant tasks with
very little ramp-up time.

One problem, however, remains:

When I generate the related "support" files (*CMP,*Data,*Home,*,*PK,
etc) from the tagged *Bean.java files, the setData method which the
*CMP.java file implements doesn't "set-the-data" for the fields (which
correspond to the methods which) are marked as key fields.  I.e. if I
have the following Bean file:

public class...blah {

/**
 * @ejb:persistent-field
 * @ejb:pk-field
 *
**/
public abstract java.math.BigDecimal getPKField();
<insert associated mutator here>

/**
 * @ejb:persistent-field
 *
**/
public abstract java.math.BigDecimal getSomeValueField();
<insert associated mutator here>

}

I wind up with a *CMP.java file whose setData method looks like this:

public void setData( my.package.*Data dataHolder )
   {
      try
      {
         setSomeValueField( dataHolder.getSomeValueField() );

         this.dataHolder = null;
      }
      catch (Exception e)
      {
         throw new javax.ejb.EJBException(e);
      }
   }


which doesn't set the primary key field when ejbCreate is called!!  So I
get sql exceptions which point this out, and feed me long stack-traces.

Any pointers?  Should I include more information?  Or am I missing some
"good design" practice that should remove this problem?

thanks,

saul