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Re: Core Data: unidirectional relationships
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Re: Core Data: unidirectional relationships


  • Subject: Re: Core Data: unidirectional relationships
  • From: Quincey Morris <email@hidden>
  • Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 12:33:16 -0800


On Feb 13, 2008, at 11:59, Quincey Morris wrote:

What about:

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.


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References: 
 >Core Data: unidirectional relationships (From: Ruotger Skupin <email@hidden>)
 >Re: Core Data: unidirectional relationships (From: Quincey Morris <email@hidden>)

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