Just say "NO". Seriously, I've tried this before - went with the roles paradigm and never looked back.
Ken On Mar 31, 2010, at 10:48 PM, Ramsey Lee Gurley wrote: > I can't see this being possible in Vertical or Horizontal, but with single > table... could the qualifying attribute be updated to 'promote' an entity to > a new class? Let's say we have we have an abstract Person entity with three > subclasses, Peasant, Knight, King. If I wanted to promote a knight to king, > is it possible to simply update my type attribute from knight to king and EOF > will start treating that record as a king instead of a knight? I would > assume I would need to invalidate the existing knight object after saving > changes so it could be refetched as a king... and if I had multiple > instances, I'd need to invalidate it in those instances too... but is it > possible? Or will EOF just flip out in the saveChanges() and refuse to do it? > > Just an academic question, of course (^_^) > > Ramsey _______________________________________________ > Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. > Webobjects-dev mailing list ([email protected]) > Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: > http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/webobjects-dev/kenlists%40anderhome.com > > This email sent to [email protected] _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Webobjects-dev mailing list ([email protected]) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/webobjects-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to [email protected]
