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In a real-world project, I encountered the following scenario:
- There's a Patient entity which has a postal code.
- There's a HealthAuthority entity, which also has a postal code and some other details.
- There are multiple postal codes per health authority, because a district spans several postal codes (this is not a problem).
- But there are also multiple health authorities per postal code, since postal codes and administrative districts don't overlap.
- As a user, it would be great to have a collection navigation from Patient to all of their HealthAuthorities, which would simply produce a join on the postal code column in the HealthAuthority table.
- However, as @AndriySvyryd pointed out offline, we can't mutate such a navigation - the relationship between Patients and HealthAuthorities isn't determined on an explicit, one-by-one basis via a join table (which can be skipped), but rather by an "implicit" connection (a Patient is related to a HealthAuthority if their postal codes correspond).
- We could still allow modelling this as a read-only navigation. The user would mutate by modifying the HealthAuthority table directly etc.
/cc @Brar
PS Should leave customer-reported :)
Brar, ajcvickers and AndrewBoklashko