Addition of an Audit item within the Audit Trail

The FuGE Hibernate STK has two options for determining if an item should be annotated with an additional Audit item when it is loaded into the database.

• net.sourceforge.fuge.addDbAuditTrail within fuge-hibernate.properties

• addAuditInfo as a boolean argument for save, create, or update

The first option, set via a properties file, overrides a "true" value passed from the calling method with whatever the value in the properties file is. This is meant for uses such as unit testing, where you want the data that goes into the database to exactly match the data coming out, to ensure that all information is being passed correctly.

However, it is important that, when SyMBA is running in production mode, the audit information is always added to Identifiable objects (SyMBA does not require its addition to Describable objects that are not Identifiable). This is because the audit date is the attribute compared when retrieving the latest version of an object. Therefore you must not override the true value from the net.sourceforge.fuge.addDbAuditTrail property for production use. Further, when adding items to the database, please ensure that you use one of the varieties of save() or create() within the EntityService that will add an audit trail item to the object.