I was thinking of scripted table creation and keeping things simple but I understand what you are saying (or reiterating since it has been said before).
If no valid case is made then I could change the manual to explain why it is not supported. Pros/Cons? Denes. On Nov 11, 11:18 am, mdipierro <mdipie...@cs.depaul.edu> wrote: > From a syntactical point of view it would not take much to support > multi-table circular references in web2py. That is not why they are > not implemented, They are not implemented because they are bad design > practice. > > If this is a 1-1 relation, there is no need to table A to refer to B > and B to A. It is sufficient that A points to B. > > If this is a many-many this should be done via a link table. > > I cannot think of any test case when this is a good idea. web2py sets > constraints for the purpose of enforcing good practice. > > Massimo > > On Nov 11, 10:05 am, DenesL <denes1...@yahoo.ca> wrote: > > > Some of you have missed Mirek's point, and he has a very valid one. > > The problem is circular references. > > There are ways around it but no elegant solution yet. > > > There was discussion some time ago about lazy evaluation of tables. > > > I also would like to see this solved in web2py. > > > Denes. > > > On Nov 11, 10:36 am, Mirek Zvolský <zvol...@seznam.cz> wrote: > > > > >> Here's a link to the section in the book: > > > >>http://www.web2py.com/book/default/chapter/06#Self-Reference-and-Aliases > > > > Yes, I know this, and from that reason I always use 'reference..' > > > style syntax. > > > > However this is about very special foreign keys, which targets to same > > > table (to the primary key in same table). > > > > And if there is some cycle in joins in the model (and of course it > > > always is, except of very, very simple models), this will not help. > > > And there is realy no solution for this in web2py ??
