Well... I have re-written my test code completely. Alas there does not seem to be a delegate method which would allow to select the target entity dynamically based on the source EO :( In fact, I did not succeed to get subEntityForEntity
at all, whatever I tried (nor relationshipFailedToLookupDestinationWithName); and classForObjectWithGlobalID gets called all right, but only _after_ fetch, not before, where it would help.
Am I overlooking some hidden gem of a WOnder or EOF delegate, through which one _could_ set the target entity for a relationship based on the source EO, before EOF tries to fetch?
For one, it would mean each DBTable eo would have its "records" relationship leading into another target DBRecordXX entity; I am not sure whether this can be modelled at all?
actually it would help a lot even without special FrontBase support.
My current setup is the very primitive
- DBTable entity, it has a :N relationship "records" into DBRecord
- DBRecord entity, which contains a FK into DBTable which models an inverse :1 relationship "table" into DBTable.
A setup we all did a zillion times.
Now I wonder, might perhaps a horizontal inheritance help me to split those DBRecords? Let us assume that
(a) I add a "tableType" numeric column to DBTable; there would be N distinct table types
(b) I model N separate DBRecord1, DBRecord2, ..., DBRecordN entities, all of them children of DBRecord (which itself would become abstract)
(c) each of them would be linked to a separate SQL table
At the database level, this definitely would work well. What I can't see, how to process this at the model and EOF levels?
- I cannot model a relationship to “different entity for each row”; therefore, the target of the "records" relationship of DBTable would still have to be the (abstract) DBRecord;
- runtime, I would have tell _somehow_ to the EOF that if it is about to fire "records" of a DBTable object, it should fetch them from the ["DBRecord%@",table.tableType] entity instead of from DBRecord -- the subEntityForEntity delegate
method comes to mind
- when adding new records, I would simply use EOUtilities.createAndInsertInstance with appropriate entity name (e.g., "DBRecord33").
Should such a thing work, or am I in for a nasty surprise? I have actually tried, but either it should not work, or I messed up something else; instead of the desired result (or some intelligible error report) I am getting a very weird
“Cannot register the database context for the model Shared” (which is *not* the model which contains my abstract/inherited entities). And, my subEntityForEntity delegate method is never called.
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