[daisy] change documenttype via api

[Karel Vervaeke]

Quickly browsing through the (daisy 2.2-dev) code, I do not immediately
see a problem with what you are trying to do.  Perhaps you can provide
the error message and/or the stacktrace?

Regards,
Karel

On Mon, 2007-11-12 at 12:33 +0100, Bart Van den Abeele wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have a problem with switching the documenttype.  Execute next code:
> 
> document.setName(digidocument.getDocumentName());
>        String oldDocumentType = 
> schemaDAO.getDocumentType(document.getDocumentTypeId());
>        String newDocumentType = digidocument.getDocumentType();
>        if (!oldDocumentType.equals(newDocumentType))
>        {
>            Fields fields = document.getFields();
>            for (Field field : fields.getArray())
>            {
>                document.deleteField(field.getTypeId());
>            }
>            document.changeDocumentType(newDocumentType);
>        }
>        modifyCommonSimpleProperties(digidocument, document);
>        modifyUnknownFields(digidocument, document);
>        modifyPictures(digidocument, document);
> 
> First i delete al fields, then i change the documenttype and then i set 
> the value of the new fields on the document.  When i only adjust fields 
> that were also on the previous documenttype i don't get a problem.  But 
> when i try to set the value of a field of the new documenttype, i get an 
> error.  This occurs in daisy 2.0.1 .  Should i do something extra before 
> setting the field that wasn't part of the old documenttype, or is this a 
> bug?
> 
> Grtz,
> Bart
> 
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