Updating properties in 'remote' DomainObject is broken

[bjornpost]

I guess the testcase is clear :-).

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There was 1 failure:

1) Pheasant\Tests\DomainObjectTest::testReadingRemoteProperty
Failed asserting that two strings are equal.
--- Expected
+++ Actual
@@ @@
-'Elastigirl'
+'Mr. Incredible'

[lox]

I think this syntax will fail in PHP 5.3.

[lox]

Pheasant doesn't maintain any internal identity maps. A call to a relationship will always return a brand new object. The new with() support will still maintain this contract, it will just cache the source data within the collection to prevent multiple queries being fired.

[bjornpost]

Is this something we would like to solve? Otherwise I'd say this is something that needs a place in the documentation.

[lox]

Yup, I think this needs to be very clearly documented. Alternately, it's possible we could accomplish this behavior with a per-relationship cache.

[bjornpost]

A cache might be a good thing, as we don't cache relationships before sending them to our templates. This currently results in a lot of unnecessary trips to the database:

// in controller
$p = \Model\Project::byId(1234);

// in our template (example):
{{ p.id }} {{ p.name }}  - {{ p.Client.id }} {{ p.Client.name }}

[lox]

I believe that the with() caching in 1.3 will solve this problem for you. Feel free to re-open if it doesn't.

[Jud]

I'd like to reopen this, as it seems like the intended behavior in this issue is actually happening. We have two domain objects Credit and CreditProduct, in a typical hasMany and belongsTo relationship.

Suppose CreditProduct #1 belongsTo Credit #1. The following observed behavior seems to contradict this thread:

# In CreditProduct afterSave, we save the credit to bust caches, etc
# function afterSave(){
#   $this->credit->save();
# }

# In a controller:
$credit = Credit::find(1);
$credit->reason = "Hello";
$credit_product = CreditProduct::create(array(
  'credit_id' => $credit->id,
  'product_id' => 2,
));

# "Hello" has been saved to the db as the credit reason,
# even though the afterSave function in CreditProduct should get a new instance.