Re: foreign keys, complexDataModel, and external schemas

Thanks Thomas! I created TORQUE-183 at =
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TORQUE-183 .

cheers,
h.

On Feb 29, 2012, at 1:09 AM, Thomas Fox wrote:

> Hi Helge,
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>>   I just ran into what may be a feature or a bug... trying to find
>> out which: When I define a table in schema1.xml and another two,
>> including a  link table for a many-to-many relationship in
>> schema2.xml, where schema2.xml includes schema1.xml as an external
>> schema, torque will not generated the getter methods for the foreign
> keys.
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> This behaviour is by design. I was not around when this decision was =
made
> but the idea is that a "external" schema is references which has no
> knowledge of the referencing schema.
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>> To illustrate, I have created a github project. As you will see,
>> there are two schema files: first-schema.xml and second-schema.xml
>> which includes the first. The generated base classes for tbl1 and
>> tbl3 differ in that BaseTbl3 has the getter methods for the link
>> table tbl_link_int (e.g. getTblLinkInts()), whereas BaseTbl1 does =
not.
>>=20
>> I think it would be a very useful feature to be able to split a
>> large schema into several sub-schema files and not lose the ability
>> to generate these setters! Maybe I am doing something wrong though!?
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> This would be a different feature. Something like <import-schema.... =
/>
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> You can create a jira issue for it. Personally I regard this as a =
sueful
> feature so there is a good probability that it will be implemented for
> Torque 4.
>=20
>    Cheers,
>=20
>      Thomas
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