http://docs.transfer-orm.com/wiki/Transfer_Configuration_File.cfm#onetomany

http://docs.transfer-orm.com/wiki/Repeated_field_names_in_the_select_list.cfm

Mark

On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 8:04 AM, John Barlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> <object name="categories" table="store_category">
>                 <id name="category_id" type="numeric"/>
>                 <property name="FKStore_id" type="numeric"/>
>                 <property name="category_parent_id" type="numeric"/>
>                 <property name="category_name" type="string"/>
>                 <property name="category_description" type="string"/>
>                 <property name="category_keywords" type="string"/>
>                 <property name="category_image" type="string"/>
>                 <property name="category_hasThumbnails" type="boolean"/>
>                 <property name="category_position" type="numeric"/>
>                 <property name="category_sort_by" type="string"/>
>                 <property name="category_sort_dir" type="string"/>
>                 <property name="category_password" type="string"/>
>                 <property name="category_hitcount" type="numeric"/>
>                 <property name="category_isActive" type="boolean"/>
>                 <onetomany name="children" lazy="true">
>                     <link to="category.categories"
> column="category_parent_id"/>
>                     <collection type="array"/>
>                 </onetomany>
>             </object>
>
> I'm using the category_parent_id to find all of the top level nodes (0 if it
> is a root node).  From there, I use the children array to keep moving down
> into the tree as needed.  I tried removing the category_parent_id property
> in hopes that it would remove the duplicate columns in the sql statement,
> but it didn't seem to help.
>
> I've been messing with this so long, I wouldn't dismiss the notion that it
> could have been a caching problem that made me think it wasn't going to work
> after I removed the column...
>
>
> On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 4:54 PM, Mark Mandel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> John,
>>
>> What did you config look like?
>>
>> I've done this more than once with Transfer, no problem.
>>
>> Mark
>>
>> On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 1:32 AM, John Barlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> >
>> > Greetings all,
>> >
>> > I've been racking my brain for about two days to try to figure this
>> > out.  I have a category table, consisting of, among other things, a
>> > category_id and a category_parent_id.  The idea is that categories can
>> > be sub categories of others (hence the category_parent_id) and have a
>> > null parent if they are the root node.
>> >
>> > I set up a onetomany relationship linking the category_id to the
>> > parent_id with lazy loading and everything was working beautifully for
>> > reading.  The problem cropped up when I tried to save a record.
>> >
>> > The error that came back was a SQL error, stating "category_parent_id
>> > appears more than once in the result column list."  From what I can
>> > find, this error occurs if you have two tables and have the
>> > relationship defined on both tables.  The solution there is to remove
>> > a relationship definition from one of the tables and all is well.
>> >
>> > Since this is referencing itself, it is inherently getting both sides
>> > of the definition defined, which I think is what is causing this to
>> > break.  I checked the SQL, and indeed it is taking on an extra
>> > category_parent_id to the end of the insert statement.
>> >
>> > I'm not sure if this is a Transfer bug or if I'm trying to use it in a
>> > way it wasn't meant to, but having a self-referencing table like this
>> > seems like a reasonable thing one would want to be able to model.  For
>> > the record, I did get around it by using a link table that has two
>> > columns that point to the category_id field in the category table and
>> > a Many to Many relationship.  Ideally, I'd like to not use an extra
>> > table to do this.
>> >
>> > I just wanted to bring this to the masses because I couldn't find
>> > anything on this and felt it may have been overlooked.  What I WAS
>> > able to find was in reference to hibernate.
>> >
>> > System specs:
>> > -Transfer 1.0
>> > -CF7
>> > -MSSQL 2005
>> > -XP
>> >
>> > >
>> >
>>
>>
>>
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