If you can express your query as "SELECT ... in (SELECT ...)" you will be able to code it using the InSubqueryQualifier.

BTW, my qualifiers have a problem with certain set-ups of flattened relationships. Fixed versions will be released as part of the "Houdah WebObjects Frameworks". Watch this list for an announcement in October.

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On Sep 21, 2007, at 10:24 PM, Chuck Hill wrote:

See Pierre Bernards excellent "Qualifiers Additions" at http:// www.bernard-web.com/pierre/webobjects/code.html, as well as some in Project Wonder. You will probably find some that help with this or at least can use them as a basis for developing your own.


Chuck


On Sep 20, 2007, at 7:55 PM, Lachlan Deck wrote:

On 21/09/2007, at 11:40 AM, Klaus Berkling wrote:

I hope someone has thoughts on performing a search through a hierarchical data model.

I have a WO application that receives, stores and retrieves student study information. More here:
http://www.dyned.com/products/internetrm.shtml

In my model I have a group entity which have sub-groups via one- to-many relationship back to itself.

Let's call this type 'Category'.

These groups then have classes with students. There is a class entity with many-to-many relationships to the student entity.

Let's call the join table 'Enrolment'
(this is sounding familiar, with some minor diffs :)

There is a search I need to implement that returns matching groups, classes and students within a givem parent group.

1. matching groups/categories are easily resolved by working back from matching classes. e.g.,
NSSet classesResultSet; // assume exists
NSSet matchingGroups = new NSSet( ( NSArray ) classesResultSet.allObjects().valueForKey( Klass.CategoryKey ) );

2. resolving matching classes or students depends on the search criteria... i.e., what determines the result set? Is it based on particular types of students, day or week, etc? Are the studends filtered by the resulting classes or vice versa?

i.e., if you can break it down a bit more a build an appropriate qualifier for the either classes or students...

I can reach all the objects through relationships so starting with a parent group I can walk through all the sub-groups, classes and students arrays. This is time consuming.

Indeed. You'll want to create a qualifier and ensure you've got good indexing happening.

I'm trying to think of a fetch specification that avoids some of the recursive looping I do now.

See above.

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