/** Writes the data currently in the table editor to the directory. */ public void writeTableData() { myEditor.stopCellEditing(); if (dataSource == null) // if ds is null, data is not modifiable... { CBUtility.error("no datasource to write data to in writeTableData()"); return; } // shouldn't happen DXEntry oldEntry = tableData.getOldEntry(); DXEntry newEntry = tableData.getNewEntry(); /* Check to see if major surgery is needed - whether the user has been * messing with the object class list. */ if (classChangedOriginalEntry != null) { // use the saved state of the pre-class-changed entry as the 'old entry' // state. oldEntry = classChangedOriginalEntry; classChangedOriginalEntry = null; // this is only used once! (either the object class change will // now succeed, or fail - either way, the entry state is reset to // match what's in the directory.) if (objectClassesChanged(oldEntry, newEntry)) { oldEntry.removeEmptyAttributes(); newEntry.setStatus(oldEntry.getStatus()); Object[] delSet = CBArray.difference(oldEntry.toIDStringArray(), newEntry.toIDStringArray()); /* if there *are* attributes that should no longer exist, delete them by adding them (blanked) * to the complete 'newAtts' set of *all* known attributes. */ if ((delSet != null) && (delSet.length > 0)) { for (int i = 0; i < delSet.length; i++) { newEntry.put( new DXAttribute( delSet[i].toString())); // overwrite old values with an empty attribute } } } } dataSource.modifyEntry(oldEntry, newEntry); }