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5.5.7. Manage Relationships
In this chapter, you'll learn how to manage relationships between data models when creating, updating, or retrieving records using the module's main service.
Manage One-to-One Relationship#
BelongsTo Side of One-to-One#
When you create a record of a data model that belongs to another through a one-to-one relation, pass the ID of the other data model's record in the relation property.
For example, assuming you have the User and Email data models from the previous chapter, set an email's user ID as follows:
In the example above, you pass the user
property when creating or updating an email to specify the user it belongs to.
HasOne Side#
When you create a record of a data model that has one of another, pass the ID of the other data model's record in the relation property.
For example, assuming you have the User and Email data models from the previous chapter, set a user's email ID as follows:
In the example above, you pass the email
property when creating or updating a user to specify the email it has.
Manage One-to-Many Relationship#
In a one-to-many relationship, you can only manage the associations from the belongsTo
side.
When you create a record of the data model on the belongsTo
side, pass the ID of the other data model's record in the {relation}_id
property, where {relation}
is the name of the relation property.
For example, assuming you have the Product and Store data models from the previous chapter, set a product's store ID as follows:
In the example above, you pass the store_id
property when creating or updating a product to specify the store it belongs to.
Manage Many-to-Many Relationship#
Create Associations#
When you create a record of a data model that has a many-to-many relationship to another data model, pass an array of IDs of the other data model's records in the relation property.
For example, assuming you have the Order and Product data models from the previous chapter, set the association between products and orders as follows:
In the example above, you pass the orders
property when you create a product, and you pass the products
property when you create an order.
Update Associations#
When you use the update
methods generated by the service factory, you also pass an array of IDs as the relation property's value to add new associated records.
However, this removes any existing associations to records whose IDs aren't included in the array.
For example, assuming you have the Order and Product data models from the previous chapter, you update the product's related orders as so:
If the product was associated with an order, and you don't include that order's ID in the orders
array, the association between the product and order is removed.
So, to add a new association without removing existing ones, retrieve the product first to pass its associated orders when updating the product:
This keeps existing associations between the product and orders, and adds a new one.
Retrieve Records of Relation#
The list
, listAndCount
, and retrieve
methods of a module's main service accept as a second parameter an object of options.
To retrieve the records associated with a data model's records through a relationship, pass in the second parameter object a relations
property whose value is an array of relationship names.
For example, assuming you have the Order and Product data models from the previous chapter, you retrieve a product's orders as follows:
In the example above, the retrieved product has an orders
property, whose value is an array of orders associated with the product.