[Modeling-users] Foreign key required for 1:1 relations Schema update thru differences

[Ernesto R. <er...@si...>]

I started modeling with the ZModelingTool and the following issues arose:

* When I modeled
            1                                    0..*
         addresses                         person
Person <---------------------------->>address

although I told in the relation in entity address that it had to map '1:1'
to Person, it didn't set the FK_Person to required. During model validation
I got the warning :
- relationship is mandatory  but source attribute direccion.FK_PERSONA is
not required.

All in all, I see the tool a bit redundant, because:
* the former issue should be done automatically
* I would like to map all python string to varchar (w/o limit) or text (in
fact, they should all be mapped to the same (perhaps system dependent) DB
type
* typeName is required but not used
* name, className, moduleName and externalName have all to be specified,
perhaps the latter three should be defaulted to the first if not specified.

Sorry, this should not sound too destructive. I really appreciate a lot all
the work done. I just think that the XML-file is too explicit (with all the
required fields). Perhaps the semantics could be loosened a bit, making al
lot of the attributes optional (like moduleName, packageName, externalType,
etc.)

If I can help, please tell me how. (I think I really need this project for
our own (ERP).)

Thanx, Erny