Technically, if you had a thorough unit testing strategy, you could change things like relationships, and would be able to easily find all the places where you needed to change code...
Just saying is all :) On 1/11/09, Jared Rypka-Hauer <[email protected]> wrote: > Nando, > > We've done very much the same thing in most cases... however it has > lead to conflicts and confusion in some cases because things like > <property name="userID" /> were reasonably converted to relationships > and broke other code that had to then be fixed. This was in part > because there's more than one dev on this project and it's our first > major project with Transfer, so we had some of our own kinks to work > out. OTOH, even working on your own it can be really hard to remember > which properties you used as properties and which ones you are > converting to relationships as you get further and further in. > > So I guess I'd suggest a similar approach with the proviso that you > need to document which properties are "safe" as relationships and > which ones aren't... > > J > > On Jan 9, 2009, at 5:28 AM, Nando wrote: > >> I might have something to add to this discussion in regards to >> taking a practical approach toward relationships in Transfer. >> >> I'm working on quite a complex application where I could construct a >> variety of very complex relationships in Transfer - if I decided >> that every relationship in the application should be modeled in >> Transfer. But that's not how I'm handling it. Instead, I'm only >> constructing the relationships that I need to handle a particular >> transaction with the database in Transfer. ... > > > > -- E: [email protected] W: www.compoundtheory.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Before posting questions to the group please read: http://groups.google.com/group/transfer-dev/web/how-to-ask-support-questions-on-transfer You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "transfer-dev" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/transfer-dev?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
