Re: join keys redux

Cyrus Harmon wrote:
> Ok, so upon further experimentation, it looks as if :home-key and 
> :foreign-key need to be atoms. The LW def-view-class docs indicate that 
> these can in fact be lists, so I'm assuming that, as far as API 
> compatibility with CommonSQL goes, this is a bug in CLSQL. I'm open to 
> spending some time trying to fix this, if that is deemed the right 
> thing to do. The part of the LW spec that I really want, at the moment, 
> is the ability to not just specify a slot-name, but also a value:

Hi Cyrus,

I haven't taken the time to confirm your findings. But, yes -- any
backward incompatibility with CommonSQL is a bug. As for specifying a
value, I don't recall what in the CommonSQL API. But, it seems that
could a CLSQL-specific extension. Though in general, I consider joined
tables to rely on identity in a slot. But, if you are selecting a join
based on a value, that is done with a SELECT statement and is not part
of a table definition. But, perhaps I'm misunderstanding what you mean
about specifying a value in a table definition.

Kevin