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[Greg Rowles <greg.rowles@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks Bob, Jason & Others

I agree and understand but we have a DHIS2 implementors who prefer to work
directly inside the DBMS who are still new to this complex environment. If
they need to insert records directly into tables this gives them the
opportunity to do the work they're used to (coming from version 1.4)...

Regards,
Greg


On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 11:17 AM, Bob Jolliffe <bobjolliffe@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Jason is right.  You should only need the hibernate sequence number if you
> are dealing with the database through sql. And if you are, then the only
> safe way to use it is to get the sequence during the execution of the
> statement.
>
> Getting the next sequence number and storing it to some variable with the
> aim of using it at some time in the future is inherently fragile.
>
> On 16 January 2015 at 09:10, Jason Pickering <jason.p.pickering@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi Greg,
>> I would tend to agree with Lars that this should really not ever be
>> required, but it would be good to know what the use case actually is.
>>
>> The easiest way to do this would be to create an SQL view in DHIS2 as
>>
>> SELECT currval('hibernate_sequence')
>>
>>
>> In a multi-user database environment, this value is of course volatile,
>> so you can never be sure what the actual current value is.
>>
>> If you really need to inject SQL into your database, then using something
>> like 'nextval('hibernate_sequence'::regclass)'in your SQL, which will
>> provide the next value of the sequence.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Jason
>>
>> On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 9:49 AM, Lars Helge Øverland <larshelge@xxxxxxxxx
>> > wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Greg,
>>>
>>> that would be easy to implement, but the idea is that it should never be
>>> necessary to expose database details and instead work with the API. Do you
>>> think you could elaborate a bit on the use-case?
>>>
>>> Lars
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 8:35 AM, Greg Rowles <greg.rowles@xxxxxxxxx>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi Devs
>>>>
>>>> Is there an easy way to expose the last hibernate sequence value
>>>> through the web API?
>>>>
>>>> Greg
>>>>
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