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/**
+ * @author Ed Spencer
+ * @class Ext.data.HasManyAssociation
+ * @extends Ext.data.Association
+ * 
+ * <p>Represents a one-to-many relationship between two models. Usually created indirectly via a model definition:</p>
+ * 
+<pre><code>
+Ext.define('Product', {
+    extend: 'Ext.data.Model',
+    fields: [
+        {name: 'id',      type: 'int'},
+        {name: 'user_id', type: 'int'},
+        {name: 'name',    type: 'string'}
+    ]
+});
+
+Ext.define('User', {
+    extend: 'Ext.data.Model',
+    fields: [
+        {name: 'id',   type: 'int'},
+        {name: 'name', type: 'string'}
+    ],
+    // we can use the hasMany shortcut on the model to create a hasMany association
+    hasMany: {model: 'Product', name: 'products'}
+});
+</pre></code>
+* 
+ * <p>Above we created Product and User models, and linked them by saying that a User hasMany Products. This gives
+ * us a new function on every User instance, in this case the function is called 'products' because that is the name
+ * we specified in the association configuration above.</p>
+ * 
+ * <p>This new function returns a specialized {@link Ext.data.Store Store} which is automatically filtered to load
+ * only Products for the given model instance:</p>
+ * 
+<pre><code>
+//first, we load up a User with id of 1
+var user = Ext.ModelManager.create({id: 1, name: 'Ed'}, 'User');
+
+//the user.products function was created automatically by the association and returns a {@link Ext.data.Store Store}
+//the created store is automatically scoped to the set of Products for the User with id of 1
+var products = user.products();
+
+//we still have all of the usual Store functions, for example it's easy to add a Product for this User
+products.add({
+    name: 'Another Product'
+});
+
+//saves the changes to the store - this automatically sets the new Product's user_id to 1 before saving
+products.sync();
+</code></pre>
+ * 
+ * <p>The new Store is only instantiated the first time you call products() to conserve memory and processing time,
+ * though calling products() a second time returns the same store instance.</p>
+ * 
+ * <p><u>Custom filtering</u></p>
+ * 
+ * <p>The Store is automatically furnished with a filter - by default this filter tells the store to only return
+ * records where the associated model's foreign key matches the owner model's primary key. For example, if a User
+ * with ID = 100 hasMany Products, the filter loads only Products with user_id == 100.</p>
+ * 
+ * <p>Sometimes we want to filter by another field - for example in the case of a Twitter search application we may
+ * have models for Search and Tweet:</p>
+ * 
+<pre><code>
+Ext.define('Search', {
+    extend: 'Ext.data.Model',
+    fields: [
+        'id', 'query'
+    ],
+
+    hasMany: {
+        model: 'Tweet',
+        name : 'tweets',
+        filterProperty: 'query'
+    }
+});
+
+Ext.define('Tweet', {
+    extend: 'Ext.data.Model',
+    fields: [
+        'id', 'text', 'from_user'
+    ]
+});
+
+//returns a Store filtered by the filterProperty
+var store = new Search({query: 'Sencha Touch'}).tweets();
+</code></pre>
+ * 
+ * <p>The tweets association above is filtered by the query property by setting the {@link #filterProperty}, and is
+ * equivalent to this:</p>
+ * 
+<pre><code>
+var store = new Ext.data.Store({
+    model: 'Tweet',
+    filters: [
+        {
+            property: 'query',
+            value   : 'Sencha Touch'
+        }
+    ]
+});
+</code></pre>
+ */
+Ext.define('Ext.data.HasManyAssociation', {
+    extend: 'Ext.data.Association',
+    requires: ['Ext.util.Inflector'],
+
+    alias: 'association.hasmany',
+
+    /**
+     * @cfg {String} foreignKey The name of the foreign key on the associated model that links it to the owner
+     * model. Defaults to the lowercased name of the owner model plus "_id", e.g. an association with a where a
+     * model called Group hasMany Users would create 'group_id' as the foreign key. When the remote store is loaded,
+     * the store is automatically filtered so that only records with a matching foreign key are included in the 
+     * resulting child store. This can be overridden by specifying the {@link #filterProperty}.
+     * <pre><code>
+Ext.define('Group', {
+    extend: 'Ext.data.Model',
+    fields: ['id', 'name'],
+    hasMany: 'User'
+});
+
+Ext.define('User', {
+    extend: 'Ext.data.Model',
+    fields: ['id', 'name', 'group_id'], // refers to the id of the group that this user belongs to
+    belongsTo: 'Group'
+});
+     * </code></pre>
+     */
+    
+    /**
+     * @cfg {String} name The name of the function to create on the owner model to retrieve the child store.
+     * If not specified, the pluralized name of the child model is used.
+     * <pre><code>
+// This will create a users() method on any Group model instance
+Ext.define('Group', {
+    extend: 'Ext.data.Model',
+    fields: ['id', 'name'],
+    hasMany: 'User'
+});
+var group = new Group();
+console.log(group.users());
+
+// The method to retrieve the users will now be getUserList
+Ext.define('Group', {
+    extend: 'Ext.data.Model',
+    fields: ['id', 'name'],
+    hasMany: {model: 'User', name: 'getUserList'}
+});
+var group = new Group();
+console.log(group.getUserList());
+     * </code></pre>
+     */
+    
+    /**
+     * @cfg {Object} storeConfig Optional configuration object that will be passed to the generated Store. Defaults to 
+     * undefined.
+     */
+    
+    /**
+     * @cfg {String} filterProperty Optionally overrides the default filter that is set up on the associated Store. If
+     * this is not set, a filter is automatically created which filters the association based on the configured 
+     * {@link #foreignKey}. See intro docs for more details. Defaults to undefined
+     */
+    
+    /**
+     * @cfg {Boolean} autoLoad True to automatically load the related store from a remote source when instantiated.
+     * Defaults to <tt>false</tt>.
+     */
+    
+    /**
+     * @cfg {String} type The type configuration can be used when creating associations using a configuration object.
+     * Use 'hasMany' to create a HasManyAssocation
+     * <pre><code>
+associations: [{
+    type: 'hasMany',
+    model: 'User'
+}]
+     * </code></pre>
+     */
+    
+    constructor: function(config) {
+        var me = this,
+            ownerProto,
+            name;
+            
+        me.callParent(arguments);
+        
+        me.name = me.name || Ext.util.Inflector.pluralize(me.associatedName.toLowerCase());
+        
+        ownerProto = me.ownerModel.prototype;
+        name = me.name;
+        
+        Ext.applyIf(me, {
+            storeName : name + "Store",
+            foreignKey: me.ownerName.toLowerCase() + "_id"
+        });
+        
+        ownerProto[name] = me.createStore();
+    },
+    
+    /**
+     * @private
+     * Creates a function that returns an Ext.data.Store which is configured to load a set of data filtered
+     * by the owner model's primary key - e.g. in a hasMany association where Group hasMany Users, this function
+     * returns a Store configured to return the filtered set of a single Group's Users.
+     * @return {Function} The store-generating function
+     */
+    createStore: function() {
+        var that            = this,
+            associatedModel = that.associatedModel,
+            storeName       = that.storeName,
+            foreignKey      = that.foreignKey,
+            primaryKey      = that.primaryKey,
+            filterProperty  = that.filterProperty,
+            autoLoad        = that.autoLoad,
+            storeConfig     = that.storeConfig || {};
+        
+        return function() {
+            var me = this,
+                config, filter,
+                modelDefaults = {};
+                
+            if (me[storeName] === undefined) {
+                if (filterProperty) {
+                    filter = {
+                        property  : filterProperty,
+                        value     : me.get(filterProperty),
+                        exactMatch: true
+                    };
+                } else {
+                    filter = {
+                        property  : foreignKey,
+                        value     : me.get(primaryKey),
+                        exactMatch: true
+                    };
+                }
+                
+                modelDefaults[foreignKey] = me.get(primaryKey);
+                
+                config = Ext.apply({}, storeConfig, {
+                    model        : associatedModel,
+                    filters      : [filter],
+                    remoteFilter : false,
+                    modelDefaults: modelDefaults
+                });
+                
+                me[storeName] = Ext.create('Ext.data.Store', config);
+                if (autoLoad) {
+                    me[storeName].load();
+                }
+            }
+            
+            return me[storeName];
+        };
+    },
+    
+    /**
+     * Read associated data
+     * @private
+     * @param {Ext.data.Model} record The record we're writing to
+     * @param {Ext.data.reader.Reader} reader The reader for the associated model
+     * @param {Object} associationData The raw associated data
+     */
+    read: function(record, reader, associationData){
+        var store = record[this.name](),
+            inverse;
+    
+        store.add(reader.read(associationData).records);
+    
+        //now that we've added the related records to the hasMany association, set the inverse belongsTo
+        //association on each of them if it exists
+        inverse = this.associatedModel.prototype.associations.findBy(function(assoc){
+            return assoc.type === 'belongsTo' && assoc.associatedName === record.$className;
+        });
+    
+        //if the inverse association was found, set it now on each record we've just created
+        if (inverse) {
+            store.data.each(function(associatedRecord){
+                associatedRecord[inverse.instanceName] = record;
+            });
+        }
+    }
+});
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