tracker issue : CF-3737411

Right now as it stands, you have to code a tremendous amount of boilerplate code in order to have bi-directional relationships work from either side.  Why not add this already to the generated functions already, it makes no sense from a productivity standpoint to not do this and it should  be simple enough.

Let's say I have a menu -> menuItems (one-to-many) and menuItems has many-to-one.  The menu has the inverse relationship:

// O2M -> Comments
    property name="menuItems"
             singularName="menuItem"
             fieldtype="one-to-many"
             type="array"
             cfc="contentbox.model.menu.item.BaseMenuItem"
             fkcolumn="FK_menuID"
             cascade="all-delete-orphan" 
             inverse="true" 
             lazy="extra"; 

Once I have defined this relationship I have to constantly create the following methods:

 /**
    * @Override due to bi-directional relationships 
    */
    Menu function addMenuItem( required menuItem ){
        // add them to the local array
        arrayAppend( variables.menuItems, arguments.menuItem );
        // set the bi-directional relation
        arguments.menuItem.setMenu( this );
        return this;
    }

    /**
    * @Override due to bi-directional relationships
    */
    Menu function setMenuItems( required array menuItems ){
        if( hasMenuItem() ){
            // manual remove, so hibernate can clear the existing relationships
            variables.menuItems.clear();
            // Add the incoming ones to the same array
            variables.menuItems.addAll( arguments.menuItems );
        } else {
            variables.menuItems = arguments.menuItems;
        }
        return this;
    }

They are always the same for ANY one-to-many relationships or many-to-many relationships.  It would be a huge productivity boost if this is already done by CF.

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Watson Bug ID:	3737411

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