Related to this post on the Ortus community forums.
It would be great if, when requesting relationship data from a non-loaded (new) entity, Quick would return null (or an empty array where appropriate) just like if you performed the same operation from a loaded entity. This behavior should be more intuitive and also better follows the null object pattern.
Here's a simple example of how one might use this new change in Quick:
// Post.cfc
component
extends="quick.models.BaseEntity"
accessors="true"
{
// Post belongs to an Author
function author() {
return belongsTo( "User" );
}
}
// Posts.cfc Handler
function index( event, rc, prc ) {
// Get an existing entity, or return a new one if not found
prc.post = getInstance( "Post" )
.firstOrCreate( rc.id );
// return the memento with the author (it will either be null or populated)
return prc.post.getMemento( "author" );
}
Related to this post on the Ortus community forums.
It would be great if, when requesting relationship data from a non-loaded (new) entity, Quick would return null (or an empty array where appropriate) just like if you performed the same operation from a loaded entity. This behavior should be more intuitive and also better follows the null object pattern.
Here's a simple example of how one might use this new change in Quick: