Creating entity while filling link field, resulting in beig null

[Firyo]

Hi there,

I currently am facing an issue I never had in the past.
Here is the process (and the problem) in question.

My Entity "Test" (for the example) is saved,
I check in its "beforeSave" hook something, if "true", I call a method inside the record Service of the entity "TestNumTwo"

This method take the "Test" entity id in its parameters.
Then, I create a "TestNumTwo" new entity and link it to my "Test" entity.

After saving, no error nor warning are thrown BUT the 2 entities aren't linked at all.
The field "test_id" in the DB is empty and my "TestNumTwo" is created without the link.


I tried 2 differents ways to create my "TestNumTwo" entity (in order to check if something different would happen).


First one

$this->entityManager->createEntity('TestNumTwo', [
'name' => $name,
'description' => $description,
'context' => $context,
'testId' => $entityId, // "Test" entity id here
'createdById' => $createdBy
]);​ 

The one I tried to do (with no different result)

$testNumTwo = $this->entityManager
->getRDBRepository('TestNumTwo')
->getNew();

$testNumTwo->set('name', $name);
$testNumTwo->set('description', $description);
$testNumTwo->set('context', $context);
$testNumTwo->set('testId', $entityId);
$testNumTwo->set('createdById', $createdBy);

$this->entityManager->saveEntity($testNumTwo);​ 

What did I do wrong and how should I fix it ?

Thanks.

Regards,
Firyo.

[yuri]

If it's v8.2 (or higher for those who read in the future), check the real name of the link. Maybe it's cTest.

[Firyo]

Hi Yuri,

I have the 8.1.4

[Firyo]

Well, after hours of debugging (with the great help of Xdebug) I found it was because this process (which was part of our legacy code) was placed in the "beforeSave" hook but should have been placed inside the "afterSave" from the start.

I also discovered the "->getFetched" function inside "Espo/ORM/Entity"