Gaetan de Menten schrieb: > On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 5:12 PM, Diez B. Roggisch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I'm mapping an existing schema with elixir. One thing strikes me as odd is >> that local_side/remote_side on ManyToMany-relationships can only be specified >> (or are respected) when auto-mapping. >> >> I don't want to auto-map, my desire is to create full mappings so that I can >> from then on work with my elixir/sa-model. >> >> What's the rationale behind not respecting the parameters as column-names? > > What exactly do you want to achieve? Do you want to have custom names > in your ManyToMany table? If this is the case, isn't the column_format > argument enough for you?
I didn't realize it. It might work as well - but certainly it's a bit more complicted :) > And, FWIW, there is no rationale. This is just the way it is because > nobody really needed custom names beyond what column_format allows you > do to yet. What you suggest is probably a more elegant solution to the > column_format argument. > > I was a bit uneasy to implement it because in the case where several > columns are needed on one (or both) side(s), the column names would > need to be given in the same order the primary key columns are > declared on the targeted entities. Now that I think of it, I don't > think it's an unreasonable requirement if it is clearly stated in the > documentation. A patch in that direction would be very likely to be > accepted ;-). I will see if I can do that :) Diez --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
