Many-to-many relationship in oop

Question

what is best way to model many-to-many relationship?

lets say we have a two classes , Team and Player

• any given Player can be in multiple Team s
• any Team can have as many Player s as they like

I like to call methods like

• playerX.getTeamList() to get the list of all the Team s he/she is in
• teamY.getPlayerList() to get the list of all the Player s in the team

(or have some other way to do this effectively)

I can think of two ways of doing this , but they just don't feels like good oop pattens. can you think of any good ways , perhaps a design patten ?

Answer 1

Relationship between players and teams form Bipartite Graph. Expecting comments(and downvotes?)! I am OOD noob.

    class MyPlayer
    {
        public string Name { get; set; }

        public MyPlayer(string n)
        {
            Name = n;
        }
    }

    class MyTeam
    {
        public string Name { get; set; }

        public MyTeam(string n)
        {
            Name = n;
        }
    }

    class PlayerTeamPair
    {
        public MyPlayer Player { get; set; }
        public MyTeam Team { get; set; }

        public PlayerTeamPair(MyPlayer p,MyTeam t)
        {
            Player = p;
            Team  = t;
        }
    }

    class PlayerTeamBipartiteGraph
    {
        public List<PlayerTeamPair> Edges { get; set; }

        public PlayerTeamBipartiteGraph()
        {
            Edges = new List<PlayerTeamPair>();
        }

        public void AddPlayerAndTeam(MyPlayer p, MyTeam t)
        {
            Edges.Add(new PlayerTeamPair(p, t));
        }

        public List<MyTeam> GetTeamList(MyPlayer p)
        {
            var teams = from e in Edges where e.Player == p select e.Team;
            return teams.ToList<MyTeam>();
        }

        public List<MyPlayer> GetPlayerList(MyTeam t)
        {
            var players = from e in Edges where e.Team == t select e.Player;
            return players.ToList<MyPlayer>();
        }

    }


    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            var G = new PlayerTeamBipartiteGraph();

            MyPlayer a = new MyPlayer("A");
            MyPlayer b = new MyPlayer("B");
            MyPlayer c = new MyPlayer("C");
            MyPlayer d = new MyPlayer("D");

            MyTeam t1 = new MyTeam("T1");
            MyTeam t2 = new MyTeam("T2");

            G.AddPlayerAndTeam(a, t1);
            G.AddPlayerAndTeam(b, t1);
            G.AddPlayerAndTeam(c, t1);
            G.AddPlayerAndTeam(b, t2);
            G.AddPlayerAndTeam(d, t2);

            G.GetTeamList(b).ForEach(t => Console.Write(" {0} ",t.Name));
            Console.WriteLine();
            G.GetPlayerList(t2).ForEach(p => Console.Write(" {0} ",p.Name));
            Console.WriteLine();
        }
    }