[eclipselink-users] Entity relationships and data inconsistency

[Patric Rufflar <Patric@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello all,

imagine an entity A which has a ManyToOne relationship to an entity B.
Consider a record of A which contains an invalid foreign id of B.

When find()-ing A, the reference to B is set to null, even the 
underlying column contains an id.
With the consequence that an application cannot distinguish between a 
true null foreign key and a data inconsistency situation.

Is there any way to detect these with eclipselink? Am I missing 
something?

Thanks.

- Patric