Re: question about javaEnum prototype
Re: question about javaEnum prototype
- Subject: Re: question about javaEnum prototype
- From: Kieran Kelleher <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2012 16:30:01 -0400
On Jul 21, 2012, at 3:30 PM, Tim Worman <email@hidden> wrote:
> Thanks Ramsey.
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> Yeah. I would really need a many-to-many relationship - which I was hoping to avoid. :-) I was wanting to just store and query "keywords" for my EO. A flattened many-to-many seems heavy to just associate string values. A good example would be a Contact entity where you maybe have a set of keywords like:
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> Christmas Card, Daily Mailer, Friend, Family, Special Offer, etc.
>
You might consider ERTag?
> In the past, I've rolled a similar thing by writing the contents of an array to a comma-separated String - and back when reading from the database. Maybe the prototype 'stringArray' would be better?
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> Tim
> UCLA GSE&IS
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> On Jul 21, 2012, at 9:24 AM, Ramsey Gurley <email@hidden> wrote:
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>> For a 'to-one' type of arrangement, enums are perfect so long as your categories don't change often.
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>> For a 'to-many' you are describing, they are less so. You could serialize an enum set, but then you can't query it. The only other solution I know of would be to put them on a table and relate to that… which sorta defeats the purpose of using an enum.
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>> Ramsey
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>> On Jul 21, 2012, at 8:25 AM, Tim Worman wrote:
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>>> WO'ers:
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>>> I have an Enitity that I would like to assign n categories to - essentially descriptive strings. I have never used the javaEnum prototype and I was wondering if it would be good for this task? On the UI side I would like to use checkboxes to select which categories to apply to an EO. Then, in the database have only those selections saved to the database.
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>>> Tim
>>> UCLA GSE&IS
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