hi,

I'm highly intersted in this module.

I m using :
Search API http://drupal.org/project/search_api
Entity API http://drupal.org/project/entity
node_reference http://drupal.org/project/references
(And I ve coded an autocomplete widget for node_reference on top of Search API.)

It will be cool if we could discuss about the roadmap of the relation module and interaction with the above modules....

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sun’s picture

sun
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Status: Active » Postponed (maintainer needs more info)

What exactly do you want to know? (Other than Relation will replace References)

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quazardous commented

I m asking because replace can mean "take place of" or "full feature replace" :p

right now the relation widget is very poor...
For exemple : have u planed using Entity API to auto propose bundles ?

Sorry for bothering, but entity relation is critical for my current project.

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naught101 commented

Yep. we'll be using entity API. There's some discussion of how that will work at #981364: Re-use field storage for relation data

The widget will be rebuilt, we're focussing on getting the back-end working first.

Relation will be able to provide a "full feature" replacement for *_reference modules and more (unless there's some features of those modules that I'm missing). However, I am not sure that that means that the *_reference modules (now at http://drupal.org/project/references) will be will be replaced - they may be more useful for some lightweight mono-directional use cases.

I generally like roadmaps, but I'm not sure if it's suitable for this project, because it's (hopefully) going to be fairly quick development that doesn't add much functionality once it's working as designed. I guess figuring out what kind of API we might need to provide for more advanced use cases might be a next step after that ground work is complete.

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BenK commented

Subscribing

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joe.murray commented

I'm interested in helping build support for foreign keys.

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naught101 commented
Status: Postponed (maintainer needs more info) » Fixed

See TODO.txt in the reboot branch (reboot will soon replace 7.x-1.x-dev)

Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.