On Jun 25, 2013, at 22:57 , Luther Baker <lutherba...@gmail.com> wrote:

> At the risk of sounding like an idiot for stating the obvious ... why not
> create a (dummy) inverse relationship (Child.activeParent)? No one says you
> have to use it ... or heck, maybe you want to use it.
> 
> Parent.children    <-------->> Child.parent
> Parent.activeChild <---------> Child.activeParent
> 
> I just tested this and it works as expected. IE: setting Parent.activeChild
> to different children between saves cleans up both ends of the relationship
> automatically (each subsequent child's 'activeParent' field was
> automatically cleared when I set a different child to the
> Parent.activeChild property).
> 
> I don't know, maybe I missed something.


I think that works, and I've done it before, but I find it very kludgey. I 
think I prefer the one-way-with-prepareForDeletion approach instead.

-- 
Rick




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