14.21 End Object

Used on	relation
Superclass	associationEnd
Description	Specifies the participation of an entity in a relationship. This adds a special default for the accessor, which will be the lower-cased name of the entity. For example, say we have a Order-Customer relation which is many-to-one (many orders can be from one customer, but each order can only come from one customer). This would be specified as with the order end labelled as multiple, as you would expect. This produces a get/setCustomer() method on the Order object which takes a single value representing the Customer a get/setOrder() method on the Customer object which takes a Collection in .NET, or a Set or Collection in J2EE depending on whether duplicates are allowed. e.g. very roughly !: class Order { Customer get/setCustomer(); } class Customer { Collection get/setOrder(); } Note that the accessor names should reflect 'how you traverse the relationship'. In other words, how you get from the current End's to the object(s) at the other end. For example, the accessor generated by default end labelled 'entity="Order"' will be called 'customer'. This leads to the get/setCustomer methods being generated on the Order.
Contained Lists	1 Name   style Type   String Inherited from   internalClass   2 Name   rolesReadonly Type   String Inherited from   entity   3 Name   rolesAllowed Type   String Inherited from   entity   4 Name   rolesBlocked Type   String Inherited from   entity   5 Name   keyMap Type   keyMap Description   A list of foreign-key/related-key fields to map from this end's entity to related entities. GenerateAllList   false
Validation	1.   The entity property does not name an entity in this jar/assembly 2.   The accessor property after defaults are applied must be non-null 3.   The accessor property after defaults are applied must be non-empty 4.   The accessor must start with a lower-case letter or '_' 5.   end has multiplicity of 'One' and has keymaps - this is incompatible with the other end being 'Many' 6.   if both ends of a relationship are 'One', only one of the ends can have keymaps 7.   If an end has keymaps, the number of keymaps on the end must match the size of the key list on the other end's entity.
Inherited properties	name from associationEnd.name description from associationEnd.description template (base property) text (base property) jwpattern (base property) allowDuplicates from associationEnd.allowDuplicates required from associationEnd.required useOnSummary from associationEnd.useOnSummary useOnSearch from associationEnd.useOnSearch accessor from associationEnd.accessor roleName from associationEnd.roleName initialRoleName from associationEnd.initialRoleName access from businessMethod.access package from baseViewRelation.package readable from baseViewRelation.readable writeable from baseViewRelation.writeable uid from constraint.uid

14.21.1  Property 'entity'

14.21.2  Property 'multiplicity'

14.21.3  Property 'externalName'

14.21.4  Property 'cascadeDelete'

14.21.5  Property 'accessNo'

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