Hi there,
On 10/02/2006, at 10:00 AM, Owen McKerrow wrote:
Objective : To get the full list of External Authors active names.
DB setup :
Person <- ->> PersonName (so a person can have many names thus
allowing for name changes, while keeping the old name for historic
time snap shots)
Right. i.e., inactive names are rarely needed which makes the
following a regular waste of time anyway.
So in my Person class I have a function for getting the currently
active name :
public PersonName activeName()
{
int i;
PersonName theName= null;
for (i=0;i<personNames().count();i++) {
PersonName temp = (PersonName)personNames().objectAtIndex(i);
if ( temp.active().intValue() == 1 ) {
theName = temp;
break;
}
}
return theName;
}
Is there an easier/quicker way to do this?
Don't fetch objects you'll rarely use ;-) i.e., filter out the
inactive ones during the fetch...
Should I have a second to-one relationship which is for the active
name?
Sounds like a much better idea. That way the 'active' class attribute
goes away and you instead have a foreign key in Person. Clean. Easy.
I should note that there about 5 people in the DB which actually
have more than 1 name, so in 98ish% of cases this is returns the
first object.
Hence the rarity of using the extra names.
While time's relevant, I'd also suggest using primitives in for-loops
(via a single object call at the beginning) instead of regular method
calls per iteration. i.e.,
for (int i = 0, count = personNames.count(); i < count; i++ ) { }
with regards,
--
Lachlan Deck
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