Udi just posted about this topic.
http://www.udidahan.com/2009/01/24/ddd-many-to-many-object-relational-mapping/

On Feb 9, 3:39 pm, Dom <[email protected]> wrote:
> Thank you for your advice.
> I'll try this solution just to get it work. Just for my enlightment,
> do you have a rationale for not using many-to-many?
>
> Thinking about it I am wondering if the problem does not come from the
> weird relationship from ShipmentOnTrip to shipment (kind of a many-to-
> many between ShipmentOnTrip and Shipments) due to the fact that the
> line No1 is bearing more information than the other one.
> It might be easier to map the table Shipments as 2 classes
> a Shipment ( where LineNo = 1) has many ShipmentCost (a projection of
> the Shipment table).
>
> Using the "where lineNo=1" suppress the problems with using the many-
> to-many.
>
> --
> Dom
>
> On 9 Feb, 20:53, Will Shaver <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > I'd recommend using two one-to-many relationships with a class in
> > between. Annoying for modeling, but you can make the collections
> > protected and publish public collections on your objects.
>
> > public class Trips
> > {
> >   public Trips() {
> >  ShipmentsOnTrip = new List<ShipmentsOnTrip>();
> >  }
>
> >   protected virtual IList<ShipmentsOnTrip> ShipmentsOnTrip {get;set;}
>
> > public virtual Shipments[] GetShipments()
> >                 {
> >                         return (from c in ShipmentsOnTrip select 
> > c.Shipment).ToArray();
> >                 }
>
> > }
>
> > etc
>
> > On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 10:01 AM, Dom <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > > Hi,
> > > I don´t manage to sort out the mapping of my classes and would
> > > appreciate some guidance.
> > > I have 3 tables
> > > Trips (tripId PK)
> > > ShipmentsOnTrip(tripID, ShipmentId) , PK is composite of both
> > > Shipments(shipmentId, lineNo) PK is composite of both, lineNo=1 is
> > > like the main shipment record but their might be others (the parent
> > > info are on no 1 but this is irrelevant here)
> > > Shipment is mapped with a composite-id.
> > > I am trying to map a Trip.Shipments as a many-to-many relationship but
> > > I don´t manage to express it. I tried variations of the following:
> > > <key-column name = tripId>
> > > <many-to-many class = shipment>
> > >  <column name = shipmentID />
> > >  <column name = lineNo />         <-- will crash without (missing
> > > column on pk) and with when trying to join.
> > > </many..>
>
> > > (I might need to rework my model with the lineNo = 1 being a class
> > > holding som childs but that is another problem :) )
>
> > > Thanks for any pointer in direction of the solution.
> > > --
> > > Dom
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