Re: Lazy optional relationship creation on EO accessor
Re: Lazy optional relationship creation on EO accessor
- Subject: Re: Lazy optional relationship creation on EO accessor
- From: David Avendasora <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2010 16:29:55 -0500
On Feb 23, 2010, at 3:07 PM, Jon Nolan wrote:
> David Avendasora wrote:
>> On Feb 23, 2010, at 12:27 PM, Jon Nolan wrote:
>>
>>> In this case I don't want to use awakeFromInsertion as the relationship is very, very optional (i.e. small % of entities have not-null relationship.)
>>
>> I'm I missing something here? What does being optional (or even very, very optional) have to do with using awakeFromInsertion?
>> Dave
> Dave,
>
> At the time the parent entity is created I don't know if I'll need the related entity. I don't want to create an empty EO every time I create a new parent as there are literally hundreds of thousands of parents and maybe a few thousand with the need for the child.
> Think User --> Preferences with 99% of users content to inherit default settings and never override. For the odd one that does a preferences object is created and the relationship established.
Ah. I see, you don't want to instantiate the EO. I thought you were saying that even in the very rare situations when you did instantiate it you didn't want to use awakeFromInsertion.
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