Esteban, That's totally fine for me. I've been doing explicit saves in ORMs since more than a decade. I can live with that.
My question was to have more than one class of element in the same collection mapping. Regards! Esteban A. Maringolo 2013/9/10 Esteban Lorenzano <[email protected]> > Hi, > > I just found some time to see this... there is a problem with > saving/updating circular references that I "solved" by not solve it at all > :( > here is the thing: > > when you create a new group and add a new user, the #save message will > find the new objects (in this case group and user) and save both. > Now, when you are updating, I do not have any way (so far), to know which > part of the graph is actually updated and needs to be saved (and we all > will agree that persisting each time all structure will not be efficient). > So I just do not do it, I'm sorry :( > That mean that if the referenced object is not new, it is not stored... > just the "first level" object is... > > I know is not a good solution, but what I do is to save each element of > the graph separated: > > user := User new save. > group := Group new > add: user; > save. > > so, taking each updated element as a unity will do the job. > > I know, I know... this is not optimal (and in fact is pretty bad), but > well... is what I could do at the moment and never had the time to enhance > it. > > Esteban > > > On Aug 30, 2013, at 3:12 AM, Esteban A. Maringolo <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > Let's say I have a class Group and a class Member. > > > > aGroup has many members. > > and aMember can belong to many groups. > > > > What is the "proper" voyageDescription for those one to many relations? > > > > Should I do something extra? > > > > Everytime I add a member to the group, both the member and the group > > get their references updated. > > Now when I add a member to a group and save it, I also save the > > member. Is there another way to avoid this? > > > > Any recommended practice for this? > > > > Next level question: What if it gets composite? it is... a Group has > > other Groups as members :) > > > > > > Regards! > > > > Esteban A. Maringolo > > > > >
