I'm not against it the suggested change, other than I don't want to introduce UI confusion. My feeling was that if someone wanted to go above and beyond, he can modify the XML file directly.
-- Kevin On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 9:21 AM, Andrus Adamchik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > While in reality flattened relationships would never span more than 2 db > relationships, and loops like that are most likely be limited to something > like many-to-many, there is no hard rules on what is allowed and what is > not. So I'd like modeler to encourage best practices, but without limiting > the possibilities for some crazy people :-) > > So maybe instead of "hard culling" we can do a "soft" version. E.g. grey out > relationships in the browser that are more than 2 steps away from root or > those that result in a to-one loop? > > Andrus > > > On Nov 18, 2008, at 4:14 PM, Kevin Menard wrote: >> >> While Cayenne will traverse that path, it's unnecessary. I think >> allowing such mapping introduces more confusion than anything else and >> such mapped relationships are normally an error than anything else. >> As such, I proposed not allowing the relationship path dialog to grow >> unbounded with such loops. >> >> NB: this does not affect the general case of relationship mapping. >> >> -- >> Kevin >> >> >> >> On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 9:02 AM, Andrus Adamchik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote: >>> >>> Hmm... not that I ever mapped a flattened relationship like that myself, >>> but >>> technically this is totally valid: >>> >>> ObjRelationship: Painting.peerPaintings >>> >>> mapped as >>> >>> DbRelationship Path: PAINTING.toArtist.paintings >>> >>> Andrus >>> >>> >>> On Nov 18, 2008, at 3:49 PM, Andrey Razumovsky wrote: >>> >>>> A -> B -> A is culled (B -> A will not be shown) when relationships are >>>> reverse to each other & A -> B is to-one (e.g. paintings -> Artist -> >>>> paintings) >>>> >>>> 2008/11/18, Andrus Adamchik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On Nov 18, 2008, at 3:33 PM, Kevin Menard wrote: >>>>> >>>>> I only was able to play with culling briefly, but it >>>>>> >>>>>> looks to be cutting down my choices considerably, which is good. >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> BTW, what's this about? Looks like I missed something. >>>>> >>>>> Andrus >>>>> >>>>> >>> >>> >> > >
