Hi Sem,

I strongly suggest you to switch to Graph API, it can manage your use case
in a much more efficient and flexible way.
Document API is lighter, but you have to manually manage "broken" links,
and as you can see sometimes it's a big trouble.

Thanks

Luigi


2015-09-21 11:03 GMT+02:00 Sem van der Wal <[email protected]>:

> Hi All,
>
> I'm having some trouble with the ObjectDatabase in combination with 1 to N
> links / references to other objects.
> In a number of objects I'm using List<OtherObject> in order to keep
> references to related objects.
> This works perfectly for the most part, since I'm able to use the
> references in queries and quickly access these referenced objects from my
> application.
>
> However, when I delete an object from the database which is referenced in
> one of these lists, I'm starting to see a whole lot of these errors:
>
> The field 'Company.companies' has been declared as LINKLIST but contains a
> null record (probably a deleted record?))
>
>
> Deleting a single object can cause a chain of issues, because objects
> referencing the deleted object cannot be loaded, but also objects with
> references to an object with an reference to the deleted object, because
> the intermediate cannot be loaded, etc etc
>
> So I need a way to prevent these deleted object from causing these issues
> in my database.
>
>
> What I could do, is before deleting an object, search for all other
> objects referencing the record to be deleted, and removing all references.
>
> I think that would work, but I'm not sure if that's the best way to do it,
> I'm thinking that there is something wrong in my design which causes this
> to be such an issue.
>
>
> Also, I am aware that this issue could be solved by using the Graph
> interface, since links are two-way and automatically managed / updated in
> that case, maybe it's the best approach to switch to the Graph interface?
>
>
> I would very much like to hear what the best or commonly accepted way to
> approach this issue is.
>
>
> Thanks in advance for your replies!
>
>
> Regards,
>
>
> Sem
>
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