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9.2 One-to-Many (1:N) Relationships

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Created on: Oct 28, 2010 1:58 PM by Zenoss API - Last Modified:  Oct 28, 2010 2:05 PM by Zenoss API

 2. One-to-Many (1:N) Relationships

This is a real example which illustrates a one-to-many relationship between one Location and many Devices.

From Device.py

... from Products.ZenRelations.RelSchema import * ... class Device(ManagedEntity, Commandable): ... event_key= portal_type = meta_type = 'Device' default_catalog= "deviceSearch" #device ZCatalog relationshipManagerPathRestriction = '/Devices' ... _relations = ManagedEntity._relations + ( ("location", ToOne(ToMany, "Location", "devices")), ) ...

From Location.py

... from Products.ZenRelations.RelSchema import *  
1 ... class Location(DeviceOrganizer): ... # Organizer configuration dmdRootName = "Locations" portal_type = meta_type = event_key = 'Location' _relations 2 = DeviceOrganizer._relations + ( ("devices"  3, ToMany(ToOne,"Device","location")), 4 ) ...

According to this relationship there can be only one Location assigned to a Device but more than one Device assigned to a Location. This relationship is created by:

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Importing ToOne and ToMany from Products.ZenRelations.RelSchema.

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Appending a two-item tuple to the _relations attribute

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The first item in the tuple is a "string" object which is the local name

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The second item in the tuple is a RelSchema object which represents the relationship to another class.

RelSchema constructors takes three parameters:

  • The first parameter is a "type" object, "remoteType" which represents the relationship from another class. The "type" should be of a class derived from RelSchema

  • The second parameter is a "string" object, "remoteClass" which is the class name of the relative.

  • The third parameter is a "string" object, "remoteName" which the remote name of itself.

    Appending a complementary two item tuple to the _relations attribute in the relative class.

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