On Jul 21, 2012, at 3:30 PM, Tim Worman <li...@thetimmy.com> wrote: > Thanks Ramsey. > > Yeah. I would really need a many-to-many relationship - which I was hoping to > avoid. :-) I was wanting to just store and query "keywords" for my EO. A > flattened many-to-many seems heavy to just associate string values. A good > example would be a Contact entity where you maybe have a set of keywords like: > > Christmas Card, Daily Mailer, Friend, Family, Special Offer, etc. >
You might consider ERTag? > In the past, I've rolled a similar thing by writing the contents of an array > to a comma-separated String - and back when reading from the database. Maybe > the prototype 'stringArray' would be better? > > Tim > UCLA GSE&IS > > On Jul 21, 2012, at 9:24 AM, Ramsey Gurley <ramseygur...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> For a 'to-one' type of arrangement, enums are perfect so long as your >> categories don't change often. >> >> For a 'to-many' you are describing, they are less so. You could serialize an >> enum set, but then you can't query it. The only other solution I know of >> would be to put them on a table and relate to that… which sorta defeats the >> purpose of using an enum. >> >> Ramsey >> >> On Jul 21, 2012, at 8:25 AM, Tim Worman wrote: >> >>> WO'ers: >>> >>> I have an Enitity that I would like to assign n categories to - essentially >>> descriptive strings. I have never used the javaEnum prototype and I was >>> wondering if it would be good for this task? On the UI side I would like to >>> use checkboxes to select which categories to apply to an EO. Then, in the >>> database have only those selections saved to the database. >>> >>> Tim >>> UCLA GSE&IS >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> 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: >>> https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/webobjects-dev/ramseygurley%40gmail.com >>> >>> This email sent to ramseygur...@gmail.com >> > > > _______________________________________________ > 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: > https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/webobjects-dev/kelleherk%40gmail.com > > This email sent to kelleh...@gmail.com _______________________________________________ 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: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/webobjects-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
