On 6/28/07, psnively <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > In that case the keyword has no meaning anymore. I rather suggest you > > create your own relationship type (inheriting from > > HasAndBelongsToMany) with whatever keyword suits you. I just commited > > a little change (r136) which should make this easier. > > > > With this change, something along the lines of: > > > > class HasAndBelongsToOne(HasAndBelongsToMany): > > uselist = False > > > > has_and_belongs_to_one = Statement(HasAndBelongsToOne) > > > > shoud work. I'm not sure I want to include this in the main > > distribution though. If you come up with a better name than > > "HasAndBelongsToOne", I'll probably do though ;-). > > This is a good point. Hmmm. What about changing > "has_and_belongs_to_many" to "has_and_belongs_to," with my patch? This > way it's: > > 1) More flexible > 2) Consistent with the documentation > 3) Consistent with other Elixir/SQLAlchemy usage involving the uselist > keyword argument
Actually what you suggest is *not* consistent with the rest of Elixir, as other relationship types all imply clearly if they point to one or several entities. > 4) More appropriately named > > As things stand at the moment, though, Elixir doesn't have a means of > describing a bidirectional 1-to-1 association, and this doesn't seem > to me to rise to the level of suggesting a fork--at all. At the > moment, however, that's what we have, and what you seem to be > suggesting. There is a huge difference between a fork and using a patched version. Besides, I didn't suggest anything particular in that area. There are other options... For example, you could add this code in your application code, or maybe in a little library on top of elixir if you prefer... -- Gaëtan de Menten http://openhex.org --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "SQLElixir" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sqlelixir?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
