Thinking about On 9. 7. 2016, at 12:13, OC <[email protected]> wrote:
> For one, it would mean each DBTable eo would have its "records" relationship > leading into another target DBRecordXX entity; I am not sure whether this can > be modelled at all? actually it would help a lot even without special FrontBase support. My current setup is the very primitive - DBTable entity, it has a :N relationship "records" into DBRecord - DBRecord entity, which contains a FK into DBTable which models an inverse :1 relationship "table" into DBTable. A setup we all did a zillion times. Now I wonder, might perhaps a horizontal inheritance help me to split those DBRecords? Let us assume that (a) I add a "tableType" numeric column to DBTable; there would be N distinct table types (b) I model N separate DBRecord1, DBRecord2, ..., DBRecordN entities, all of them children of DBRecord (which itself would become abstract) (c) each of them would be linked to a separate SQL table At the database level, this definitely would work well. What I can't see, how to process this at the model and EOF levels? - I cannot model a relationship to “different entity for each row”; therefore, the target of the "records" relationship of DBTable would still have to be the (abstract) DBRecord; - runtime, I would have tell _somehow_ to the EOF that if it is about to fire "records" of a DBTable object, it should fetch them from the ["DBRecord%@",table.tableType] entity instead of from DBRecord -- the subEntityForEntity delegate method comes to mind - when adding new records, I would simply use EOUtilities.createAndInsertInstance with appropriate entity name (e.g., "DBRecord33"). Should such a thing work, or am I in for a nasty surprise? I have actually tried, but either it should not work, or I messed up something else; instead of the desired result (or some intelligible error report) I am getting a very weird “Cannot register the database context for the model Shared” (which is *not* the model which contains my abstract/inherited entities). And, my subEntityForEntity delegate method is never called. Thanks a lot, OC _______________________________________________ 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]
