Saving invalid objects

JonnyBergdahl posted on Friday, September 08, 2006

I have the need for saving objects that are in a somewhat "invalid" state, ie some of the validation rules is broken.

The background is simple; I have a web service where other applications initiates the creation of a business object. These applications seldom have all mandatory data available, so a user then loads the object to manually add the missing data. Since the bussiness object is quite complicated I need both the web service and the user application to use the

What would be the best approach to allowing saving of partially invalid objects?

Regards;
/jb

ajj3085 replied on Friday, September 08, 2006

In 2.1 beta, rules have a 'severity.'  You set rules which are warnings; if the warning rules are broken, they will not affect the IsValid state. 

The beta has been very solid thus far, and if you move to it now, you'll be in a better position to upgrade to the RTM 2.1 (you'll also help us test it).

Andy