[odb-users] indirect relatioship between objects with std::vector<boost::variant<...>>

[MM]

On 26 May 2018 at 12:05, MM <finjulhich at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 17 May 2018 at 16:43, Boris Kolpackov <boris at codesynthesis.com> wrote:
>>
>> MM <finjulhich at gmail.com> writes:
>>
>> > The behavior that I'm looking for is that if I persist A, then, I
>> > would want my odb pragmas to persist the Xs and the Ys, but only if
>> > they are not persisted already.
>> >
>> > Similarly,  if I load A, and the Xs and Ys instances are not loaded
>> > already, I'd want to load them as well.
>>
>> Normally this kind of application-specific logic is best implemented
>> using database operation callbacks and/or custom sessions.
>>
>> Boris
>
> Looking at 14.1.7. callback pragma from the manual, would this be like
>
> 1. for persisting: A would have a member function that gets called
> On pre_persist, the function would call persist() on the relevant X or Y object
>
> 2. for loading: A would have a member function that gets called
> On pre_load: the function would load() the relevant X or Y object
>
> Is it possible to have the called-back function not be a member function?
>
> Thanks
>
> MM

It appears the callback pragma doesn't apply to value types, and it's
just ignored.
The odb compiler doesn't generate warnings for that.
Can this pragma apply to value types too?

MM