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POassociation of two entities through a third one in .NET MVC 4
 

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    <p>I am building a website using .NET MVC 4. What I have is Persons that have roles in regard to other Persons. For example A is Father to B,D and A is Husband to C.</p> <p>I am not sure if this is the right way to do it but I was thinking of having a class Persons and a class Roles. Somehow I want to connect an instance of Persons with another instance of Persons through an instance of Roles and save that in the database.</p> <p>So the association table will have to have three columns Person1|Role|Person2.</p> <p>How can I best represent this in a model?</p> <p>EDIT</p> <p>Thanks for the help. I did something pretty similar to what you proposed.</p> <pre><code>public class Persons { public Guid PersonsID { get; set; } public string Name { get; set; } ICollection&lt;Relations&gt; Relations { get; set; } } public class RelationshipType { public Guid ID {get; set;} public string Type { get; set; } public ICollection&lt;Relations&gt; Relations { get; set; } } public class Relations { public Guid RelationsID { get; set; } public virtual Persons RealtedPerson { get; set; } public virtual RelationshipType RelationType { get; set; } public virtual Persons RealtedTo { get; set; } } </code></pre> <p>This gave three tables where the table Relations has two foreing keys towards Persons and one foreign key towards RelationshipType. No if I remove a person the relation including this person maybe removed as well. </p> <p>One final question. Why did you opted for an enum rather a class resulting in a table?</p> <p>Thanks again for your help.</p>
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