[jboss-user] [JBoss Seam] - How To Cancel Update in Home Object

[gzoller]

Hello,

If I override update() in a Home object, how can I stop the update from happening and roll back changes the user has made?  Even better:  Is there a way to have access to the old and new fields values?

What I'd like to be able to do is know what the original value was so I can manually set it back in update().  Something like this:


  | @Override
  | public String update() {
  |     if( getInstance().getFavoriteColor().equals("Red") ) {
  |            MyHome mh = new MyHome();
  |            mh.setId( getInstance().getId() );
  |            mh.find();  // desired: mh now holds original pre-update() persisted state
  |            getInstance().setFavoriteColor(mh.getFavoriteColor());
  |            return null;
  |     }
  |     return super.update();
  | }
  | 

The problem is that the database lookup returns the new value not the original value I'm looking for.  I've also tried using a query rather than find()--same result.  This is puzzling to me!  update() hasn't yet successfully completed, so why is the find() returning the new rather than the old value?

Anybody know how I can get access to both the original and new field values inside update()?

Thanks!
Greg

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