subclassing an Entity

2014-08-18 Thread Theodore Petrosky
I have an Entity Article with a to-many to pdfs and to-one to thePDF. I subclassed the Entity ‘PDF’ to ImportantPDF with a qualifierisImportant = 1 and I set up the relationship from Article to ImportantPDF. it almost works. If I have an Article with one uploaded pdf, and isImportant is

Re: subclassing an Entity

2014-08-18 Thread Ramsey Gurley
Sounds like you’re about to shoot yourself in the foot :) I really wouldn’t subclass here. If is_important can change, that’s a bad idea. It sounds like a mutable attribute. You can set up a method on your article EO called importantPDFs() and use that as a propertyKey in your rules. Since it

Re: subclassing an Entity

2014-08-18 Thread Chuck Hill
What Ramsey said: your implementation is a Really Bad Idea (tm). This is a state not a sub-type. On 2014-08-18, 1:17 PM, Ramsey Gurley wrote: Sounds like you’re about to shoot yourself in the foot :) I really wouldn’t subclass here. If is_important can change, that’s a bad idea. It sounds