In actuality, my relationship is Patient<<->Responsible Patient. The responsible is the person who gets the bill in the family. So yes, if there are no dependent patients, the to-many returns an array with just the responsible, since the responsible patient relationship is mandatory. Further, I didn’t design the thing, it’s just a mirror of godawful dental practice management schemas.
But that’s boring. Really I just wanted to work the pointy haired boss<->>underlings relationship into my message somehow ;) On Apr 29, 2015, at 5:43 PM, David Avendasora <webobje...@avendasora.com> wrote: > Hi Ramsey! > >> On Apr 27, 2015, at 2:51 PM, Ramsey Gurley <rgur...@smarthealth.com> wrote: >> >> As an example, let’s say you have an Employee entity. > > Okay. Way better than a “Foo"! > >> Employee has a relationship to Employee named manager, the reverse of which >> is subordinates. > > Right. Makes sense. > >> Further assume manager is top level so a manager’s manager is himself. > > Screeech. What?! You implement the concept of an Employee not having a > related “manager” by … (did I really read that right?!) … by adding a > manager?! > >> If you are given a single Employee, and want to know something about all >> subordinates, > > What if they don’t have any subordinates? Do you return an array of Employees > consisting of just the Employee themselves? > > I really haven’t been able to parse the rest of the email because my brain > just crashed with a buffer overflow caused by the endless recursion of > fetching a manager’s manager. Fortunately, it only overwrote the part of my > memory that stored my WO knowledge-base. > > So, can anyone help me with this Java Client app? > > See what you did Ramsey? See!?!? > > Dave > > ————————————————————————————— > WebObjects - so easy that even Dave Avendasora can do it!™ > ————————————————————————————— > David Avendasora > Senior Software Abuser > Nekesto, Inc. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ 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
