On Jul 21, 2012, at 1:30 PM, Kieran Kelleher <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Jul 21, 2012, at 3:30 PM, Tim Worman <[email protected]> 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? Thanks Kieren. I'm successfully giving ERTag a test drive. It seems to work pretty well. In general it appears it kinda uses the approach I was trying to avoid myself - many-to-many relationship. I know there's much smarter goodies in there though. :-) Thanks, Tim UCLA GSE&IS >> 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 <[email protected]> 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 ([email protected]) >>>> Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: >>>> https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/webobjects-dev/ramseygurley%40gmail.com >>>> >>>> This email sent to [email protected] >>> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. >> Webobjects-dev mailing list ([email protected]) >> Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: >> https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/webobjects-dev/kelleherk%40gmail.com >> >> This email sent to [email protected] _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Webobjects-dev mailing list ([email protected]) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/webobjects-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to [email protected]
