4.5 Server - string fields saving only a single character

[Bart Pietercil]

But I do think seeing something  in Mantis relating to such a problem. Why don't you try testing 4.6 beta ? It is quite stable.


Bart Pietercil
CTO Cognosis NV



On 13 Apr 2010, at 21:48, Robert Nichols wrote:

> OK. Very strange problem...and the list may think I'm crazy, but I've just spent 3 hours trying to isolate the problem so I wouldn't look like a fool. If I'm missing something really obvious, then...sorry in advance! (I'll be a fool, but with my problem solved.)
> 
> I'm running 4.5 server with V4rb mac client. Upon upgrading plugin and server to 4.5 from 3.?, I started having a problem saving string values to newly created records.
> 
> Here is the pattern, I believe:
> 
> - If I 
> 	1. create a blank cursor, 
> 	2.  cursor.addrecord
> 	3. populate fldString
> 	4. update via cursor.updaterecord
>  then the value sticks correctly, and can be successfully edited later.
> 
> 
> BUT
> 
> - If I 
> 	1. create a blank cursor, and 
> 	2. do NOT populate fldString 
> 	3. cursor.addrecord (returns recid 123)
> 	4. cursor = nil
> 	5. create new cursor to edit record 123
> 
> Then the FIRST time I try to populate and update fldString via cursor, valentina only saves first character of string.
> Subsequent attempts to update truncated value are successful. The only time the problem happens is when fldString is populated for the FIRST in a cursor other than the cursor used to create record (cusor.addrecord).
> 
> 
> I'm seeing the problem in different fields and across different tables. I never saw anything like this prior to migrating from 3.? (can't recall what version I was using) to 4.5.
> 
> Crazy? I couldn't find any similar references in the list archive, so I suspect I am the problem...
> 
> 
> TIA
> 
> 
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