Here is another back to basics post. Howto 'do' one-to-many when you are not having a RDBM and using POCO?

Here is the (very simple) model:

For persistance I use Db4o in this example. Please see this blogpost.

One blogentry has many comments. So, we'll put comments in a List as a attribute of blogentry:

 public class BlogEntry
        {
            public string blogtitle { get; set; }
            public string blogstory { get; set; }
            public DateTime postdate { get; set; }
            public List<Comment> comments { get; set; }

            public BlogEntry()
            {
                this.postdate = DateTime.Now;
            }

        }

Here is the comment class:

 public class Comment
        {
            public string commenttext { get; set; }
            public string email { get; set; }
            public BlogEntry blogentry { get; set; }
           
        }

Now we are ready to build our console based blog application:

static void Main(string[] args)
 {
   using (var s = SessionFactory.Current)
    {
       //DELETE
       //s.DeleteAll<Comment>();
       //s.DeleteAll<BlogEntry>();

       //ADD
       var b = new BlogEntry { blogtitle = "Lady Gaga FTW",
       blogstory = "Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book"
       };

       var c = new Comment { blogentry = b, commenttext = "inderdaad", email =  "info@test.com" };  
       var d = new Comment { blogentry = b, commenttext = "niet mee eens", email =  "info@krap.com" };


       List<Comment> commentlist = new List<Comment>();
       commentlist.Add(c);
       commentlist.Add(d);
       b.comments = commentlist;

       s.Save(b);
       s.CommitChanges();
                
       //RETRIEVE (2 foreach loops)
       var blog =  s.All<BlogEntry>();
         foreach (BlogEntry ble in blog) {
                    Console.WriteLine(ble.blogtitle);
                    Console.WriteLine(ble.blogstory);
                    Console.WriteLine(ble.postdate);
                    foreach (Comment cmt in ble.comments)
                    {
                        Console.WriteLine("Comment: ");
                        Console.WriteLine(cmt.commenttext);
                        Console.WriteLine(cmt.email);
                        Console.WriteLine("---");
                    }
                    Console.WriteLine("########");
                }
            }

So, when I execute this application a few times, the db40 file gets a bit stuffed and I get the following output, which is a full blown console blog application:

Hmm.
Oh well, I said it was a back to basics post, didn't I. šŸ™‚