RE: [binarycloud-dev] entity definition format

[John D. <jo...@we...>]

On Sun, 19 Aug 2001, Andreas Aderhold wrote:

> 
> OK, will that work for the 4NF ?
> 
> i.e. "get all interest names for user with this id"
> 
> user_id
> user_interests -> userinterests
> 
> userinterests:
> user_id
> interest_id-> interests
> 
> interests:
> interest_id
> interest_desc
> 

I believe so, although I've never actually done it, so maybe John C. or
Odysseas can answer this one.

> [entities that span tables/part of tables]
> > It does support that; you have to specify the joins in a
> > hierarchical array structure in the entity definition (that syntax could
> > use some rethinking
> > before we release as it was imported from an earlier abstraction
> > layer). I can supply an example entity definition if there is interest.
> 
> Oh yes, please.
> 

On its way

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