Question

A common design I use is to set a date column with the current date as the default. For SQL Server I use getDate() and for MySQL now() or current_timestamp.

Implementing a MySQL solution in ORM, seemed the way to do it would be:

property name="dtSaved" ormtype="date" dbdefault="now()";

However, this isn’t working, but isn’t throwing an error either. When I run ORMReload(), it seems to get stuck on this table, and none of the entities that come after (alphabetically) get created. (I’m using dbcreate=”dropcreate”)

Note that this is Railo 3.3.1, not Adobe ColdFusion 9.

Answer 1

You can set a dynamic default value in your constructor, so something like this:

component persistent="true" {
property name="measurementDate" ormtype="date";
function any init(){
if (IsNull(variables.measurementDate)){
variables.measurementDate = Now();
}
return this;
 }
}

Comment by John Whish – November 22, 2010

from:
http://www.aliaspooryorik.com/blog/index.cfm/e/posts.details/post/coldfusion-9-orm-example-215