defaultValue doesn't work on update replace

[MohiuddinM]

default value doesn't work when an existing row is being replaced, with another row where a required field is null

[simolus3]

Can you give me some more details in what you're trying to achieve? Reset a value to that you have defined in withDefault?

[MohiuddinM]

I have created a value in database, and now I want to replace that value with a new object (which was created using the fromJson method)

[MohiuddinM]

I am using update(xxx).replace(aaa)

[simolus3]

Sorry for the delay, but I think I still need more info. UpdateStatement.replace should set fields that are null back to null in the database. If that's not happening it would be a bug in the library. If you need a different behavior, please explain what you'd expect to happen.

[MohiuddinM]

I would expect the replace function to work exactly as create function. Remove the old row, and create a new row in its place.

[simolus3]

Sorry for the delay. This is pretty much the same problem as in #25. If a column is set to null we can't know if that's null as in "reset to the default value" or "override this column to NULL".

[MohiuddinM]

This is only a problem, when the attribute is nullable. Secondly, I have read your comment on #25 too, and I would simply disallow default values for nullable attributes if I were you.

[simolus3]

This is now implemented on develop - absent values will be replaced with their default value.