A polymorphicHasMany
relationship is a one-to-many
relationship. This relationship is used when an entity can belong to multiple types of entities. The classic example for this type of relationship is Posts
, Videos
, and Comments
.
// Post.cfc
component extends="quick.models.BaseEntity" accessors="true" {
function comments() {
return polymorphicHasMany( "Comment", "commentable" );
}
}
// Video.cfc
component extends="quick.models.BaseEntity" accessors="true" {
function comments() {
return polymorphicHasMany( "Comment", "commentable" );
}
}
The first value passed to polymophicHasMany
is a WireBox mapping to the related entity.
The second value is a prefix
for the polymorphic type. A common convention where is to add able
to the end of the entity name, though this is not automatically done. In our example, this prefix is commentable
. This tells quick to look for a commentable_type
and a commentable_id
column in our Comment
entity. It stores our entity's mapping as the _type
and our entity's primary key value as the _id
.
The inverse of polymophicHasMany
is polymorphicBelongsTo
.
// Comment.cfc
component extends="quick.models.BaseEntity" accessors="true" {
function post() {
return polymorphicBelongsTo( "commentable" );
}
}
Name | Type | Required | Default | Description |
---|---|---|---|---|
relationName | String | true |
The WireBox mapping for the related entity. | |
name | String | true |
The name given to the polymorphic relationship. | |
type | String | false |
name & "_type" |
The column name that defines the type of the polymorphic relationship. |
id | String | false |
name & "_id" |
The column name that defines the id of the polymorphic relationship. |
localKey | String | [String] | false |
keyNames() |
The local primary key on the parent entity. |
relationMethodName | String | false |
The method name called on the entity to produce this relationship. | The method name called to retrieve this relationship. Uses a stack backtrace to determine by default. DO NOT PASS A VALUE HERE UNLESS YOU KNOW WHAT YOU ARE DOING. |
Returns a polymorphicHasMany relationship between this entity and the entity defined by relationName
.
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