Tuesday, April 23, 2013

Re: Checking Consistency Before Saving

I think a more basic question has to do with the data model.  Why are you duplicating information in two places?  If the Student has a reference to a Province and a Province has a reference to a Country then you do not need a reference to a Country in Student.

From a UI standpoint I would allow the user to select a Country.  When the country is selected I would display only the Provinces that are defined for that Country.  When the Student is saved it would only save the province_id. 

If you need the country for the Student later on you can access it by doing a find with recursive set to 2 or by doing an explicit join of the Country table.

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