Question

I have the following database model:

[User]
Id
Name

[Role]
Id
Name

[UserRole]
UserId
RoleId
IsActive 

And I want to create a nice way to represent this relationship and the property that is in it with objects without creating a class to represent UserRole table.

Any ideas?

Thanks a lot!

Answer 1

Just have an attribute of a user object called “roles”, which contains a list of roles.

You can also have 2 attributes, one for a list of active roles one for inactive ones, in case you need to manage the active flag using that object.

Also, you can have a role object’s attribute listing the users in that role (either instead of or in additional to the role attribute in user object) – again possibly with “inactive” copy.