It doesn't have to be a dictionary, I just used that formatting as an
example 🤔 In fact it doesn't have to be an existing data structure at all,
if there's a way for me to parse the raw text on my relationship tiddler
(even if that means getting my hands dirty with Javascript).
On Thursday, February 6, 2020 at 8:32:05 AM UTC-6, Eric Shulman wrote:
>
> On Wednesday, February 5, 2020 at 7:57:41 PM UTC-8, Mooglegirl wrote:
>>
>> I have tiddlers for different characters in my story, and I want to
>> define a list of pair relationships with accompanying comments, and then
>> generate the relationships for a given character on the fly. For example, I
>> might have some hidden tiddler with something like:
>>
>> alice:bob (brother/sister)
>> bob:carlos (friends)
>> bob:darren (rivals)
>> darren:alice (boyfriend/girlfriend)
>>
>>
> There is a fundamental flaw in your intended design: in a
> DictionaryTiddler, which contains key:value pairs, each key must be unique,
> but in your example, you have two separate entries both with a key of "bob".
>
> To see the problem, try this on Tiddlywiki.com:
>
> 1) Create a tiddler (e.g., "MyData") containing the example content shown
> in your post and set the type of the tiddler to
> "application/x-tiddler-dictionary"
> 2) Create another tiddler (e.g., "MyTest") containing: {{MyData##bob}}
>
> Notice that only one result is shown: "darren (rivals)".
>
> To achieve the kind of design you want, you would have to make each key
> value unique (e.g., "bob-friends" and "bob-rivals"), but then it would be
> problematic to do a lookup for the "Bob" tiddler. You would have to get
> the list of all key names and remove any "-friends" and "-rivals" suffix to
> find the desired key entries, and then restore those suffices when you want
> to actually fetch the corresponding value for each matching key. The
> required code is complex and prone to errors in implementation.
>
> You might be able to address the problem by having separate
> DictionaryTiddlers for each type of relationship. Thus, you would have a
> "Friends" tiddler containing "Bob:Carlos" and a "Rivals" tiddler containing
> "Bob:Darren". Of course, this has it's own complexities, in that you would
> have to check every relationship tiddler to find and display any entries
> for "Bob".
>
> -e
>
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