[dev] Re: Re: Re: Adding contact to nag task [Patch]

Chuck Hagenbuch chuck at horde.org
Mon Jan 27 12:22:19 PST 2003


Quoting Jeroen Huinink <j.huinink at wanadoo.nl>:

> 1. It might not be usefull or it could be undesired to have the reverse
> relationship. At least I could imagine that it would not, but I can not
> think of a terribly good example at the moment, but what I am thinking
> about is a reverse relationship that could possible return a *huge* amount 
> of results.

Yeah, but it might not. This doesn't seem a good reason to me; maybe you
want to UI code to be able to limit the number of results, but not rule out
the link entirely...

> 2. The name that is picked for the relationship might not make sense for
> the reverse relationship (as a title in a UI element).

Sure, but shouldn't display names be completely separated from the
programmatic names, anyway?

> I'll work on the unidirectional relationships for now and we could add
> the reverse relationships at a later time.

Sounds good.

-chuck

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