On Wednesday, July 6, 2016 at 8:39:57 AM UTC-4, Carlos Cesar Caballero
wrote:
>
> Hi Anthony, that's exactly what I need, because (among other things) when
> the parent key is part of the child primary key I can do something like
> child.parent_id, and it works the same with a relationship of depth n, for
> example in the relation author-book-page-sentence-word, I can ask what
> author wrote a word just saying word.author_id without need to join word
> with sentence with page with book to get the author id.
>
Yes, but nothing stops you from doing that with the DAL:
db.define_table('word',
Field('sentence_id', 'reference sentence'),
Field('page_id', 'reference page'),
Field('book_id', 'reference book'),
Field('author_id', 'reference author'),
Field('word'))
word = db.word(1)
author_id = word.author_id
In the above, db.word.author_id is not part of the primary key of the
db.word table, but it is still a foreign key to the db.author table.
But keep in mind that this is not that useful, as all you have is the
record ID of the author -- if you want any details about the author, you
still need to do a join or an additional query.
Anthony
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