Understanding & using Relations in Strapi

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In this article, we will look into the relational fields in Strapi to see how we can utilize them to establish relationships in our models

This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://strapi.io/blog/understanding-and-using-relations-in-strapi
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“One-to-Many This relation involves a table pointing to several or many tables.”: I think “One-to-Many” means a table pointing to many recored in another table, not “…to several or many tables”. Refer: One-to-many (data model) - Wikipedia

“The Comment model and the Answer model have a one-to-one relationship. A comment has one answer.”: The relation between Comment and Answer should be One-Way relationship, because of there is no point back to the “pointing” column in answer model. Look the source files:

comment.settings.json 

...
"attributes": {
    "cText": {
      "type": "text"
    },
    "answer": {
      "model": "answer"
    },
    "user": {
      "type": "string"
    }
  }
...

answer.settings.json 

...
"attributes": {
    "aText": {
      "type": "text"
    },
    "user": {
      "type": "string"
    },
    "question": {
      "via": "answers",
      "model": "question"
    }
  }
...
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