Change relationship during runtime

@Tobias_Wenger wrote:

Hi

I stumbled across a problem with relationships and I don't know who to solve it the best way.

Example:
Lets assume we have a cable with some properties like length, insulation and a type. The type can be "round wire" or "rectangular wire" where each type has different properties. The roundWire has diameter and the rectangular wire has height and width as properties.

Cable = DS.Model.extend({
             length: DS.attr('number'),
         insulation: DS.attr('string'),
          roundWire: DS.belongsTo('roundWire'),
    rectangularWire: DS.belongsTo('rectangularWire')
});

RoundWire = DS.Model.extend({
    diameter: DS.attr('number')
});

RectangularWire = DS.Model.extend({
    height: DS.attr('number'),
    width: DS.attr('number')
});

(in my real world project I have much more types with more individual properties)

In the example above either roundWire or rectangularWire can be set to a value and the other needs to be null. It is never possible that both are set at the same time. My concern is that I have to check which relationship is used and return the corresponding properties. I would like to have instead only one property like:

wire: DS.belongsTo('roundWire' or 'rectangularWire')

I'm quite sure that I'm not the first with such a problem. Are there any best practices to design this desired structure?

Thanks in advance..

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