Re: Stumped on "Attempt to insert null object...." when connecting to DB

On 21/03/2009, at 11:34 AM, Lachlan Deck wrote:

> On 21/03/2009, at 11:00 AM, Lon Varscsak wrote:
>
>> I've never done anything special with erprototypes, but it is in my  
>> other
>> projects and not causing any issues.  However, I did just remove it  
>> (the
>> ERPrototypes framework) from my project and the error goes away!   
>> So you did
>> solve the issue...I just don't get what's different...but I'm not  
>> sure that
>> I care now. :)
>> Thanks for your time,
>
> I was under the impression that erprototypes (and any prototypes for  
> that matter) shouldn't have a connection dict.
>
> Have you set this property?
> er.extensions.ERXModelGroup.prototypeModelNames=foo,bar,erprototypes

You can additionally use properties:

dbConnectUserGLOBAL=user
dbConnectPasswordGLOBAL=pass
dbConnectPluginGLOBAL=Sybase
#dbConnectURLGLOBAL=url

and customise as needed:
ModelA.URL=urlA
ModelA.DBUser=userA
ModelA.DBPassword=passA
ModelA.DBPlugin=Postgresql

with regards,
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Lachlan Deck