Many-to-one with primary key (unique constraint) - ios

Question

I've got an Article and a Category model linked by a many-to-one relationship. However, the Category model has a unique constraint on the id property because it's the primary key as you can see below.
class Article: Object
{
dynamic var id: String = ""
dynamic var title: String = ""
dynamic var category: Category()
override static func primaryKey() -> String? {
return "id"
}
}
class Category: Object
{
dynamic var id: String = ""
dynamic var title: String = ""
override static func primaryKey() -> String? {
return "id"
}
}
This will work until an Article got the same Category and throw an exception because of the unique constraint.
How am I supposed to implement this kind of relationship ? Is there any built-in way to persist only the Category id and retrieve the corresponding Category ?
Thanks

Answer 1

As you can read in Realm doc (0.92.1), you have to use a List<Object> for a many-to-one relationship.
See this link :
http://realm.io/docs/swift/latest/
class Dog: Object {
dynamic var name = ""
dynamic var owner: Person? // Can be optional
}
class Person: Object {
... // other property declarations
let dogs = List<Dog>()
}
let someDogs = Realm().objects(Dog).filter("name contains 'Fido'")
jim.dogs.extend(someDogs)
jim.dogs.append(rex)
So in your case, I guess it should be something like that :
class Article: Object
{
dynamic var id: String = ""
dynamic var title: String = ""
override static func primaryKey() -> String? {
return "id"
}
}
class Category: Object
{
dynamic var id: String = ""
dynamic var title: String = ""
dynamic var articles = List<Article>()
override static func primaryKey() -> String? {
return "id"
}
}
If your Realm version is older :
class Category: Object
{
...
dynamic var categories = RLMArray(objectClassName: Article.className())
}