[DDC-2089] Modify OneToMany to allow unidirectional associations without the need of a JoinTable Created: 19/Oct/12  Updated: 16/Dec/12

Status: Open
Project: Doctrine 2 - ORM
Component/s: ORM
Affects Version/s: 2.x
Fix Version/s: 2.4, 3.0
Security Level: All

Type: Improvement Priority: Major
Reporter: Enea Bette Assignee: Benjamin Eberlei
Resolution: Unresolved Votes: 0
Labels: onetomany, persister, unidirectional
Environment:

Debian Wheezy, Mysql 5.1, Apache2, PHP 5.4


 Description   

As I sayd in the title, it would be nice if the ORM layer could permit to map a 1:n association in the db as an unidirectional OneToMany in the classes, without using a JoinTable in the database.
This would permit us to get rid of the unnecessary database JoinTable, which creates disorder and decreases performance for no valuable reason.

Is it possible?

 Comments   
Comment by Enea Bette [ 16/Dec/12 ]

A little up... for inspiration from JPA

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Java_Persistence/OneToMany#Undirectional_OneToMany.2C_No_Inverse_ManyToOne.2C_No_Join_Table_.28JPA_2.0_ONLY.29

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