Save some documents but not others

Matthew Shum

• December 07, 2016 16:15

Hi,

I wrote some code to create a certain document. If the document passes a certain criteria, I want to be able to save that document. If it doesn't, I don't want it to save the document.

Is there a way to do this?

Thanks!

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  Richard Moir

  • December 07, 2016 19:42

  Assuming you are writing a DocumentOperation, I think the nicest way is to throw a DocumentOperationException as soon as you decide not to save the document. Pass a message into the exception explaining why and that will be displayed to the user.

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  Richard Moir

  • December 07, 2016 19:43

  That also assumes you are only doing one document. If you have many, then don't add the documents you don't want to save to the list of results that are returned.

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  Matthew Shum

  • December 07, 2016 20:36

  ^ True. Thanks.

  I guess my main issue is with saveDocument(). I tried to call it but it won't save the document in question to the folder. So I am not sure if I am using the method correctly.

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  Richard Moir

  • December 07, 2016 22:24

  If you have just created a new document then you shouldn't call saveDocument(). That is only used if you are modifying a document that is already in the database.

  To save a new document to the database then you can call DocumentUtilities.addGeneratedDocument

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  Matthew Shum

  • December 08, 2016 12:49

  Sorry, I want to save an intermediate document to the database. I will try to call DocumentUtilities.addGeneratedDocument. Thanks!

  Update: This solved my needs! Thanks!

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