See that's what I think I'm doing wrong.  I need to throw out my minimalistic 
DB design instincts.  No PFK's!!! Bad, Bad, Bad!!!!   

Thanks Kieran and Ramsey.
-Mike


On Jan 14, 2011, at 2:27 PM, Kieran Kelleher wrote:

> You need to add foreign keys and don't propagate. Let EOF assign PKs as usual 
> 
> Regards, Kieran.
> (Sent from my iPhone)
> 
> 
> On Jan 14, 2011, at 1:04 PM, Michael Gargano <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> The only question I have on this method is how do I propagate the primary 
>> key now?  If the modeler thinks it's a 1-to-many I can't check that box.  
>> That's how this started to begin with.  I had them set as one-to-manies, but 
>> I didn't know how that pk should be propagated in code.
>> 
>> 
>> On Jan 14, 2011, at 11:45 AM, Kieran Kelleher wrote:
>> 
>>> one-to-one relationships can only be mandatory, and EOF *automatically* 
>>> creates the B and C when you create A and propogates the primary key (a 
>>> setting in the EOModel BTW) from A to B and A to C.
>>> 
>>> The only way to set up an optional "1-to-1" is to create a 1-to-many in 
>>> EOF, 
>>> 
>>>   A <-->> B
>>>   A <-->> C
>>> 
>>> and put methods in A to get and set singular B or C, returning null when 
>>> empty toMany array.
>>> 
>>> Enforce the zero or one count on the relationship in the database by making 
>>> the foreignkey of A a unique index in tables B and C.
>>> 
>>> The mutually exclusive rule can be checked in validateForSave.
>>> 
>>> YMMV,
>>> 
>>> Kieran
>>> 
>>> On Jan 14, 2011, at 11:16 AM, Michael Gargano wrote:
>>> 
>>>> I have three entities A, B, and C...
>>>> 
>>>> A has a 1-to-0 or 1 with B
>>>> and
>>>> A has a 1-to-0 or 1 with C
>>>> 
>>>> An entry in A either has an entry in B or an entry in C.  The two are 
>>>> mutually exclusive.  When I try to set this up in the modeler it gives me 
>>>> some problems.  Once I set a relationship as a one-to-one, the modeler 
>>>> won't let me select optional if optional is already unselected and the 
>>>> modeler generates a warning about having optional set if I edit the plist 
>>>> directly.  I'm not sure if I'm doing this correctly, but it looks to me 
>>>> like the modeler isn't allowing 1-to-0 or 1 relationships. 
>>>> 
>>>> So, if I just live with the warnings...
>>>> 
>>>>   If I set the relationship between A and B and set the relationship to C 
>>>> to null (again because B and C are mutually exclusive), when I save 
>>>> changes it throws an exception complaining that all the properties in B 
>>>> are null.  Anyone else doing something like this?
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks.
>>>> -Mike
>>>> 
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