Yes, that was the missing link (I think), thank you. I did do a fair amount of RoR two years ago, so I may have forgotten it all but the expectation of magic is still there!
Joe On May 27, 11:28 pm, Timothy Perrett <timo...@getintheloop.eu> wrote: > So your saying you want a one to many join: > > 1 school has many subjects? > > You can of course do this with mapper, by default mapper is not a black box > full of magic like, say, Ruby's active record, so you need to fit some of > the convenience method plumbing yourself if you need it. > > Assuming you adding a "subjects" method to the School class, you could do > something like: > > val subjects: List[Subject] = School.find(1234).subjects > > Likewise, if you had a subject you could do something like: > > val school: School = subject.school.obj > > The latter is provided as a convenience by default. The former is not. > > Does that help? > > Cheers, Tim > > On 27/05/2009 23:08, "Joe Wass" <j...@folktunefinder.com> wrote: > > > > > Mapper (by default) > > > On May 27, 11:03 pm, Timothy Perrett <timo...@getintheloop.eu> wrote: > >> What persistance mech are you using Mapper or JPA? The solution > >> differs depending on your choice. > > >> Cheers, Tim > > >> On May 27, 10:38 pm, Joe Wass <j...@folktunefinder.com> wrote: > > >>> Is there an idiomatic way to represent the following? I've done it > >>> many times before manually in PHP, but never with ORM. I suppose I > >>> know how I'd do it in Lift long-hand (I'm very new) but there might be > >>> a 'Lift' way of doing it. Subject could be an enum or a table. > > >>> Entity: School > >>> Entity: Subject > > >>> School can have multiple subjects. > > >>> School ---* SubjectInstance --- Subject > > >>> I suppose ideally I'd like to be able to treat it as School having a > >>> Set of enums. > > >>> TIA > > >>> Joe --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Lift" group. To post to this group, send email to liftweb@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to liftweb+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/liftweb?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
