Hi, Everybody,
Several times I've seen companies that re-use applications for other
clients. They do this by either taking classes they've used, or by wrting a
generator that creates a class... mostly a "Data Gateway" class that, no
matter what the application or desired functionality, contains methods like
"GetByID" "GetAll" "UpdateByID," etc. The GetBy methods retrieve a
recordset, the update methods update the entire recordset, no matter what
*field" needs updating.
As a result, when I worked in an application I inherited a lot of code that
was never used... and when all I had to update was a single field, I was
still updating the entire record.
I know it's breaking YAGNI, and I know you probably wouldn't do this on an
XP project... but what do people on this list think about that way of
working?
If you went into a company where the code was like, what would you do?
Kay
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