Member interactions

The following interactions pertain to manipulating member records. Most of the examples assume that the member is a person that has attributes such as birth date, sex, age, and so on.

The examples instantiate one or more MemHead objects, used to create new members. MemHead has three constructors:

• MemHead() – Creates a MemHead object and sets a temporary memRecno. When the MemHead is inserted into the database, the temporary memRecno is converted to the next available number. This one is most commonly used in the examples.
• MemHead (long memRecno) – Creates a MemHead object and sets the specified memRecno. (If this value is zero (0), then a reserved memRecno is generated. When the MemHead is inserted into the database, the memRecno is converted to the next available number.)
• MemHead (long memRecno, long entRecno) – Creates a MemHead object and sets the specified memRecno and entRecno. (If the memRecno or entRecno value is zero (0), then a reserved memRecno or entRecno is generated. When the MemHead is inserted into the database, the memRecno or entRecno is converted to the next available number.)

MemName and MemDate objects are frequently used as well.

MemName has four constructors, but only one is used in the examples. Consult the Javadoc for information about the other constructors.

• public MemName(MemHead memHead) – Constructs a MemName object and sets the member identification info. The MemRecno and EntRecno information is set using the MemHead object.

MemDate has four constructors, but only one is used in the examples. Consult the Javadoc HTML documentation for information about the other constructors.

• public MemDate(MemHead memHead) – Constructs a MemDate object and sets the member identification info. The MemRecno and EntRecno information is set using the MemHead object.

This example code provided with the SDK:

MemAttrRow memDate = getDicStore().createMemAttrRowByName("Birth Date", memHead);
memDate.setString("dateVal", "17-08-1973");

should instead read:

MemDate memDate = new MemDate();
memDate.setDateVal("dateVal", "1973-08-17");

See the "mpi_memdate and mpi_memdate_h" topic within the Data Model Description, and the madison.mpi.MemDate class in the Javadoc Information for details.