On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 9:27 AM, Peter Robinett <pe...@bubblefoundry.com>wrote:
> I believe David has said that having MappedPassword represent two > columns is one of his great regrets, so watch out! ;-) > Yeah... it's the single worst design decision I made in Lift (and I've made a non-trivial number of bad decisions... and no, I don't know what all of them are). > > Peter > > On Dec 10, 9:17 am, Derek Chen-Becker <dchenbec...@gmail.com> wrote: > > IMHO this doesn't sound like an ideal way to do this. At a high level > what > > are you trying to do? Is this a legacy DB or starting from scratch? If I > had > > to do something like this I would instead use something like > > MappedLongForeignKey so that you have a direct reference to the other > tables > > instead of having to do it manually. Something like: > > > > class C extends LongKeyedMapper[C] with IdPK { > > def getSingleton = C > > > > object refA extends MappedLongForeignKey(this,A) > > object refB extends MappedLongForeignKey(this,B) > > > > def getRef = refA.obj or refB.obj > > > > def setRef(obj : A) = refA(obj); refB(Empty) > > def setRef(obj : B) = refB(obj); refA(Empty) > > > > } > > > > Derek > > > > > > > > On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 9:44 PM, Joern <joern.bernha...@gmx.net> wrote: > > > Hi there, > > > > > I want to create a MappedField, which has one column as Type Long and > > > another column as Type Boolean, but I don't know, what I should put > > > into "dbFieldClass" and/or targetSQLType. If I look at MappedPassword > > > for example, I just see classOf[String] or Types.VARCHAR, which > > > somehow makes sense, because all columns of the MappedPassword are > > > Strings. How can I create such a MappedField ? > > > > > Or maybe there is a completely different and/or better way to approach > > > my problem: > > > I have two tables (A and B), which are represented by my own mapper > > > classes having IdPK. > > > In a third table (let's call it C), I want to reference an instance of > > > A or B in table C. As mentioned above, I want to say for example that > > > Boolean "false" means look in table A for the Long (=index) and "true" > > > -> look in table B. > > > > > Any tips, pointers or links to more documentation about multi-column > > > mappedfields? :) > > > > > Thanks, > > > Joern > > > > > -- > > > > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups > > > "Lift" group. > > > To post to this group, send email to lift...@googlegroups.com. > > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > > liftweb+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<liftweb%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > <liftweb%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com<liftweb%252bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com>> > > > . > > > For more options, visit this group at > > >http://groups.google.com/group/liftweb?hl=en. > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Lift" group. > To post to this group, send email to lift...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > liftweb+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<liftweb%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/liftweb?hl=en. > > > -- Lift, the simply functional web framework http://liftweb.net Beginning Scala http://www.apress.com/book/view/1430219890 Follow me: http://twitter.com/dpp Surf the harmonics -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Lift" group. To post to this group, send email to lift...@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.