Question

I’m making a system where a user can tag other users with a string (previously undefined, it can be anything).

1. If I use Parse.relation where the relation is the tag string itself, users who don’t use that tag will have an empty relation table created anyway, seems like a waste.

2. If I use Parse.relation named “friend”, how can I further characterize it with the tag?

3. As well it should allow for multiple tags between any 2 users.

I’ll be pondering more about it, any ideas for the appropriate data model given Parse’s architecture are welcome!

Thanks,
Gon

Answer 1

The solution is to set the .relation on the tag, not the user. That way the tag stays a user-defined string, while its relations point to other User objects.