On 2011-10-07, at 10:05 AM, Matteo Centro wrote: > Thanks Chuck, > > actually POI was not abstract nor there was a qualifier... Dumb me!
Good, I thought it was something simple! > As this WOApp will have to "feed" an iOS app I was planning of using ERRest. > I also verified that that ERRest, when asked for all POIs of a City, gives me > all the relevant attributes, even of Restaurants and Clubs, which is exactly > the thing I hoped to get with single table inheritance...WOW! It is nice. Chuck > > Thanks, > > Matteo > > > On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 5:36 PM, Chuck Hill <ch...@global-village.net> wrote: > Hi Matteo, > > It sounds like something is not right in your model. Check that > - POI is either abstract or has a qualifier (e.g. qualifier type='P') > - the Parent entity of Restaurant and Club is set, check that > - the external (table) name of POI, Restaurant and Club is exactly identical > > Chuck > > On 2011-10-07, at 7:55 AM, Matteo Centro wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > kind of a stupid question but in my whole career with WO I never used > > Single Table Inheritance so I'm kind of a newbie here... > > > > I'll try to explain with a small example: I have an entity called > > PointOfInterest (POI), defined by the main attributes which are name, > > latitude, longitude, type and with a relationship to a City. > > I then created two subclasses of POI > > Restaurant (with qualifier type='R') and some more attributes > > Club (with qualifier type='C') and some different attributes > > All is mapped in two tables, one for City and one for POI. Everything > > looked fine in my head... > > > > I find puzzling though that if I ask a City for its POIs I get an array > > full of duplicates in this example I'm printing out all the POIs for a City: > > POI name: Open POI Class: your.app.logic.Club > > POI name: Jazz Club POI Class: your.app.logic.Club > > POI name: Dal Baffo POI Class: your.app.logic.Restaurant > > POI name: Zushi POI Class: your.app.logic.Restaurant > > POI name: Ristorante POI Class: your.app.logic.Restaurant > > POI name: Dal Baffo POI Class: your.app.logic.Restaurant > > POI name: Zushi POI Class: your.app.logic.Restaurant > > POI name: Open POI Class: your.app.logic.Club > > POI name: Jazz Club POI Class: your.app.logic.Club > > POI name: Generic poi POI Class: your.app.logic.PointOfInterest > > POI name: Ristorante POI Class: your.app.logic.Restaurant > > > > In reality I only have 6 items in my POI table: 3 Restaurants, 2 Clubs and > > one row with blank type. So I was expecting of getting something like this: > > POI name: Open POI Class: your.app.logic.Club > > POI name: Jazz Club POI Class: your.app.logic.Club > > POI name: Dal Baffo POI Class: your.app.logic.Restaurant > > POI name: Zushi POI Class: your.app.logic.Restaurant > > POI name: Ristorante POI Class: your.app.logic.Restaurant > > POI name: Generic poi POI Class: your.app.logic.PointOfInterest > > > > Maybe I'm approaching the problem in the stupidest way but I'd like to > > understand a little bit more about what you guys think... > > > > Thanks, > > > > > > Matteo > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. > > Webobjects-dev mailing list (Webobjects-dev@lists.apple.com) > > Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: > > http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/webobjects-dev/chill%40global-village.net > > > > This email sent to ch...@global-village.net > > -- > Chuck Hill Senior Consultant / VP Development > > Practical WebObjects - for developers who want to increase their overall > knowledge of WebObjects or who are trying to solve specific problems. > http://www.global-village.net/products/practical_webobjects > > > > > > > > -- Chuck Hill Senior Consultant / VP Development Practical WebObjects - for developers who want to increase their overall knowledge of WebObjects or who are trying to solve specific problems. http://www.global-village.net/products/practical_webobjects _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Webobjects-dev mailing list (Webobjects-dev@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/webobjects-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
