Validation / relatonship problem

Hi list,

I have objects of types A <-->> B. A has a relationship "toBs" and B has a
relationship "toA".

If I retrieve the A object anA and enumerate immediately through its toBs
NSArray, the EODebug shows me that as expected, 2 SELECTs are carried out,
first to retrieve the A object and second to retrieve its associated B
objects, and I can print out toBs.objectAtIndex(x).someValue() with no
problem.

I then call ec.deleteObject(anA); ec.saveChanges(), to check my
validateForDelete() method in the A class. In the validateForDelete method I
try to do exactly the same enumeration, only to discover that the NSArray
returned by this.toBs() is an empty array with a count() of 0.

Yet if I set the toBs relationship in the model to be "deny", then the
validation fails, as expected, with the message "Removal of 'A' object
denied: in its 'toBs' relationship, there are related objects".

Why does the toBs method return an empty array in validateForDelete()?

Thanks,
Igor Clark.