Re: trouble with self association

On Sat, Dec 4, 2010 at 11:52 AM, John Andersen <j.andersen.lv@gmail.com> wrote:
> The way I would solve this issue, is to have not one model and include
> all the associations within that one, but to have two models, one for
> the Book and one for the TranslatedBook. Thus you can avoid the
> belongsTo itself association inside the Book model, which can give
> confusing results, as you have seen.
>
> Both models will still refer to the same table though.

I considered that, also. But I need to list all books together,
regardless of whether they're translations, have translations, or
neither. I think using separate classes would make things more
complicated. For now, I've gotten around the problem by doing:

if (!empty($data['TranslationSource']) &&
!empty($data['TranslationSource']['id']))

That's not ideal but it works.

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