I think that should be fine.  You might want to plan out how you are going to 
qualify this for fetches.



On Jul 10, 2010, at 2:25 PM, Joe Moreno wrote:

> Is it possible for EOF to support a reflexive relationship back to the same 
> Entity with the same relationship property name through a flattened 
> many-to-many?
> 
> Think of a User entity in the case of LinkedIn where users are "linked" to 
> other users:
> User <---->>Connection<<---->User
> 
> Connection is the flattened (EOGenericRecord) m:n table with only the foreign 
> keys as its two primary keys. User.connections simply returns all the 
> connected users.
> 
> I'm imagining that you'd link them up like this:
> userA.addObjectToBothSidesOfRelationshipWithKey(userB, "connection");
> 
> Any one with experience/gotchas doing this? (No inheritance involved.)
> 
> Thanks,
> Joe
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