Entity: Department
Attributes: ...whatever...
Relationships:
headOfDepartment --> Role
viceHeadOfDepartment --> Role
pointyHairedBoss --> Role
dilbert --> Role
other Employees -->> Employee
Entity: Role
Attributes: ...whatever...
Relationships:
department --> Department
employee --> Employee
(add role-type attribute or subclass Role if needed)
Entity: Employee
Attributes: ...whatever...
Relationships:
department --> Department
roles -->> Role
That's basically the same as your "ugly" version, just less ugly.
Er, NVM. I thought I had all the inverses covered, but I messed up
the one that actually matters (Role.department). Fixing that would
require subclassing Role, and where *that* would land on the ugliness
scale is hard to predict.
_______________________________________________
Cocoa-dev mailing list (email@hidden)
Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list.
Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com
