/** * @author Ed Spencer * @class Ext.data.HasManyAssociation * @extends Ext.data.Association * *

Represents a one-to-many relationship between two models. Usually created indirectly via a model definition:

*

Ext.regModel('Product', {
    fields: [
        {name: 'id',      type: 'int'},
        {name: 'user_id', type: 'int'},
        {name: 'name',    type: 'string'}
    ]
});

Ext.regModel('User', {
    fields: [
        {name: 'id',   type: 'int'},
        {name: 'name', type: 'string'}
    ],

    associations: [
        {type: 'hasMany', model: 'Product', name: 'products'}
    ]
});
* *

Above we created Product and User models, and linked them by saying that a User hasMany Products. This gives * us a new function on every User instance, in this case the function is called 'products' because that is the name * we specified in the association configuration above.

* *

This new function returns a specialized {@link Ext.data.Store Store} which is automatically filtered to load * only Products for the given model instance:

*

//first, we load up a User with id of 1
var user = Ext.ModelMgr.create({id: 1, name: 'Ed'}, 'User');

//the user.products function was created automatically by the association and returns a {@link Ext.data.Store Store}
//the created store is automatically scoped to the set of Products for the User with id of 1
var products = user.products();

//we still have all of the usual Store functions, for example it's easy to add a Product for this User
products.add({
    name: 'Another Product'
});

//saves the changes to the store - this automatically sets the new Product's user_id to 1 before saving
products.sync();
* *

The new Store is only instantiated the first time you call products() to conserve memory and processing time, * though calling products() a second time returns the same store instance.

* *

Custom filtering

* *

The Store is automatically furnished with a filter - by default this filter tells the store to only return * records where the associated model's foreign key matches the owner model's primary key. For example, if a User * with ID = 100 hasMany Products, the filter loads only Products with user_id == 100.

* *

Sometimes we want to filter by another field - for example in the case of a Twitter search application we may * have models for Search and Tweet:

*

var Search = Ext.regModel('Search', {
    fields: [
        'id', 'query'
    ],

    hasMany: {
        model: 'Tweet',
        name : 'tweets',
        filterProperty: 'query'
    }
});

Ext.regModel('Tweet', {
    fields: [
        'id', 'text', 'from_user'
    ]
});

//returns a Store filtered by the filterProperty
var store = new Search({query: 'Sencha Touch'}).tweets();
* *

The tweets association above is filtered by the query property by setting the {@link #filterProperty}, and is * equivalent to this:

*

var store = new Ext.data.Store({
    model: 'Tweet',
    filters: [
        {
            property: 'query',
            value   : 'Sencha Touch'
        }
    ]
});
*/ Ext.data.HasManyAssociation = Ext.extend(Ext.data.Association, {
/** * @cfg {String} foreignKey The name of the foreign key on the associated model that links it to the owner * model. Defaults to the lowercased name of the owner model plus "_id", e.g. an association with a where a * model called Group hasMany Users would create 'group_id' as the foreign key. */
/** * @cfg {String} name The name of the function to create on the owner model. Required */
/** * @cfg {Object} storeConfig Optional configuration object that will be passed to the generated Store. Defaults to * undefined. */
/** * @cfg {String} filterProperty Optionally overrides the default filter that is set up on the associated Store. If * this is not set, a filter is automatically created which filters the association based on the configured * {@link #foreignKey}. See intro docs for more details. Defaults to undefined */ constructor: function(config) { Ext.data.HasManyAssociation.superclass.constructor.apply(this, arguments); var ownerProto = this.ownerModel.prototype, name = this.name; Ext.applyIf(this, { storeName : name + "Store", foreignKey: this.ownerName.toLowerCase() + "_id" }); ownerProto[name] = this.createStore(); }, /** * @private * Creates a function that returns an Ext.data.Store which is configured to load a set of data filtered * by the owner model's primary key - e.g. in a hasMany association where Group hasMany Users, this function * returns a Store configured to return the filtered set of a single Group's Users. * @return {Function} The store-generating function */ createStore: function() { var associatedModel = this.associatedModel, storeName = this.storeName, foreignKey = this.foreignKey, primaryKey = this.primaryKey, filterProperty = this.filterProperty, storeConfig = this.storeConfig || {}; return function() { var me = this, config, filter, modelDefaults = {}; if (me[storeName] == undefined) { if (filterProperty) { filter = { property : filterProperty, value : me.get(filterProperty), exactMatch: true }; } else { filter = { property : foreignKey, value : me.get(primaryKey), exactMatch: true }; } modelDefaults[foreignKey] = me.get(primaryKey); config = Ext.apply({}, storeConfig, { model : associatedModel, filters : [filter], remoteFilter : false, modelDefaults: modelDefaults }); me[storeName] = new Ext.data.Store(config); } return me[storeName]; }; } });