Re: to-many relationship where I don't want most of the items

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Hi Robert,

Just curious where your non-persisted DataMarkerEntry objects are lying
around. I'm assuming you haven't added them to your dataMarkerEntries
relationship yet.

Thanks,
mrg


On Sun, Jun 21, 2026 at 11:25=E2=80=AFAM Robert A. Decker <decker@robdecker=
.com>
wrote:

> I have a to-many relationship where I really only want to pull out a few
> out of hundreds. In this case, it's those with is_visible set to true. I
> never actually work with them when is_visible is false, but I can't delet=
e
> them either because they audit changes.
>
> person.dataMarkerEntries - this is modelled in the modeller and pulls all
> data marker entries from the database. I don't want this.
> person.visibleDataMarkerEntries  - this is my method and it has a query
> that only pulls out visible data marker entries from the database:
>
> ObjectSelect<DataMarkerEntry> query =3D
> ObjectSelect.query(DataMarkerEntry.class)
> .where(DataMarkerEntry.IS_VISIBLE.isTrue())
> ....
>
> However, the visibleDataMarkerEntries won't include non-persisted (new)
> data marker entries. But if I call dataMarkerEntries to see the
> non-persisted data marker entries then will it pull all of them out of th=
e
> database too?
>
> Is there a way for me in visibleDataMarkerEntries to also include
> non-persisted data marker entries off of my personr instance?
>
> Rob
>
>

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