Re: To Many Relationship to String
Re: To Many Relationship to String
- Subject: Re: To Many Relationship to String
- From: Chuck Hill <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2010 11:32:19 -0700
My vote: listen to Dave. Quick and Dirty usually ends up Slow and Expensive and Dirty.
Chuck
On Aug 12, 2010, at 11:27 AM, Steve Peery wrote:
> You are probably right. I too have paid for trying to "make it more efficient" many times in my coding career.
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> Steve
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> On Aug 12, 2010, at 2:13 PM, David LeBer wrote:
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>> On 2010-08-12, at 2:05 PM, Steve Peery wrote:
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>>> I have an EO object that I want to have a to many relationship to a String object. I could create an EO object to hold the string and do a standard to many relationship but it seems wasteful. Is there a better way?
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>>> Steve
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>> I will preface this with "I have no idea what your requirements are" but speaking from experience: Anytime I've tried to cheap-out and take the quick and dirty route with my model I've always regretted it. I would just bite the bullet and model the relationship to an eo. I can think of a bunch of downsides of working with a relationship modeled as an array or similar, and not many upsides. And given the tools (EOGeneration, Migrations, etc) it's not really a big deal to do it right.
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>> ;david
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