@Matt Quackenbush
thanks so much for taking the time to help me out :) that makes sense. kinda
starting to get it. I think its going to be one of those things I need to do
real world things with before I see the benefits. at the moment all I seem to
be doing is adding extra overhead lol.
is there any rules on this i.e. when an object is an object and should be used,
when a service layer should be used and why not direct access etc? my UML sort
of shows systems where I think I would need several service, gateways and
objects but some cross over, is this normal? how do you organise your apps?
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admin.cfc is an object which I passed around it also does my validation and
cleans data. you stated that I could do things like below in the admin.cfc...
changePassword()
sendTempPassword()
is that not something my gataway should handle on its own accessed via the
service layer?
@ Kevan Stannard
Sorry I was more trying to find out if the concepts of passing objects and
'service' gateway is being used in the correct context. not the best example
for login I know.
some stuff in admin.cfc
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<cfcomponent displayname="adminusers" output="false">
<cfproperty name="adminId" type="numeric" default="" />
<cfproperty name="firstname" type="string" default="" />
<cfproperty name="surname" type="string" default="" />
<cfproperty name="email" type="string" default="" />
<cfproperty name="username" type="string" default="" />
<cfproperty name="password" type="string" default="" />
<cfproperty name="role" type="string" default="" />
<cfproperty name="lastLogin" type="string" default="" />
<cfproperty name="flag" type="boolean" default="" />
<cfproperty name="IP" type="string" default="" />
<cfproperty name="userLog" type="string" default="" />
<cfproperty name="createddatetime" type="date" default="" />
<!---PROPERTIES--->
<cfset variables.instance = StructNew() />
<!---INITIALIZATION / CONFIGURATION--->
<cffunction name="init" access="public" returntype="adminusers" output="false">
<cfargument name="adminId" type="string" required="false" default="" />
<cfargument name="firstname" type="string" required="false" default="" />
<cfargument name="surname" type="string" required="false" default="" />
<cfargument name="email" type="string" required="false" default="" />
<cfargument name="username" type="string" required="false" default="" />
<cfargument name="password" type="string" required="false" default="" />
<cfargument name="role" type="string" required="false" default="" />
<cfargument name="lastLogin" type="string" required="false" default="" />
<cfargument name="flag" type="string" required="false" default="" />
<cfargument name="IP" type="string" required="false" default="" />
<cfargument name="userLog" type="string" required="false" default="" />
<cfargument name="createddatetime" type="string" required="false" default=""
/>
<!--- run setters --->
<cfset setadminId(arguments.adminId) />
<cfset setfirstname(arguments.firstname) />
<cfset setsurname(arguments.surname) />
<cfset setemail(arguments.email) />
<cfset setusername(arguments.username) />
<cfset setpassword(arguments.password) />
<cfset setrole(arguments.role) />
<cfset setlastLogin(arguments.lastLogin) />
<cfset setflag(arguments.flag) />
<cfset setIP(arguments.IP) />
<cfset setuserLog(arguments.userLog) />
<cfset setcreateddatetime(arguments.createddatetime) />
<cfreturn this />
</cffunction>
<!---PUBLIC FUNCTIONS--->
<cffunction name="setMemento" access="public" returntype="adminusers"
output="false">
<cfargument name="memento" type="struct" required="yes"/>
<cfset variables.instance = arguments.memento />
<cfreturn this />
</cffunction>
<cffunction name="getMemento" access="public" returntype="struct"
output="false" >
<cfreturn variables.instance />
</cffunction>
<!---Validation Checks--->
<cffunction name="validateUser" access="public" returntype="array"
output="false">
<cfargument name="formData" type="struct" required="true" />
<cfset var errors = arrayNew(1) />
<!--- username --->
<cfif (NOT len(trim(formData.username)))>
<cfset ArrayAppend(errors, "Username is required") />
</cfif>
<cfif (len(trim(formData.username)) AND NOT
IsSimpleValue(trim(formData.username)))>
<cfset ArrayAppend(errors, "Username is not a string") />
</cfif>
<cfif (len(trim(formData.username)) GT 12)>
<cfset ArrayAppend(errors, "Username is too long") />
</cfif>
<!--- password --->
<cfif (NOT len(trim(formData.password)))>
<cfset ArrayAppend(errors, "Password is required") />
</cfif>
<cfif (len(trim(formData.password)) AND NOT
IsSimpleValue(trim(formData.password)))>
<cfset ArrayAppend(errors, "Password is not a string") />
</cfif>
<cfif (len(trim(formData.password)) GT 80)>
<cfset ArrayAppend(errors, "Password is too long") />
</cfif>
<cfreturn errors />
</cffunction>
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