How to reverse a relationship

[kklosson]

In my early AwareIM days, I had some misconceptions. I have a relationship between two objects, one is the owner of the other and it is one to one. I would like to reverse that. How can one do this without breaking the relationship in the production database? Let's say that currently, A is the owner of B and I want B to own A.

My thought is:

Step 1: Add a number attribute in B to represent the ID of A and create a process to populate the ID attribute in B with its child object ID from A to "remember" the relationship).
Step 2: Update to the server and run the process created in Step 1.
Step 3: Remove and recreate the relationship to reverse ownership and create a process to relate B to A by referencing the ID planted in B.
Step 4: Publish to the server (this obviously destroys the existing relationship between A and B) and run the process created in Step 3 to recreate under the new ownership scheme.

Is there possibly an easier way?