Re: Deep hierarchical search
Re: Deep hierarchical search
- Subject: Re: Deep hierarchical search
- From: Chuck Hill <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2007 13:24:50 -0700
See Pierre Bernards excellent "Qualifiers Additions" at http://
www.bernard-web.com/pierre/webobjects/code.html, as well as some in
Project Wonder. You will probably find some that help with this or
at least can use them as a basis for developing your own.
Chuck
On Sep 20, 2007, at 7:55 PM, Lachlan Deck wrote:
On 21/09/2007, at 11:40 AM, Klaus Berkling wrote:
I hope someone has thoughts on performing a search through a
hierarchical data model.
I have a WO application that receives, stores and retrieves
student study information. More here:
http://www.dyned.com/products/internetrm.shtml
In my model I have a group entity which have sub-groups via one-to-
many relationship back to itself.
Let's call this type 'Category'.
These groups then have classes with students. There is a class
entity with many-to-many relationships to the student entity.
Let's call the join table 'Enrolment'
(this is sounding familiar, with some minor diffs :)
There is a search I need to implement that returns matching
groups, classes and students within a givem parent group.
1. matching groups/categories are easily resolved by working back
from matching classes. e.g.,
NSSet classesResultSet; // assume exists
NSSet matchingGroups = new NSSet( ( NSArray )
classesResultSet.allObjects().valueForKey( Klass.CategoryKey ) );
2. resolving matching classes or students depends on the search
criteria... i.e., what determines the result set? Is it based on
particular types of students, day or week, etc? Are the studends
filtered by the resulting classes or vice versa?
i.e., if you can break it down a bit more a build an appropriate
qualifier for the either classes or students...
I can reach all the objects through relationships so starting with
a parent group I can walk through all the sub-groups, classes and
students arrays. This is time consuming.
Indeed. You'll want to create a qualifier and ensure you've got
good indexing happening.
I'm trying to think of a fetch specification that avoids some of
the recursive looping I do now.
See above.
with regards,
--
Lachlan Deck
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