> > how do you organise your apps?
That is where using ColdSpring for your service factory would come into use. It handles the relationships between your singleton components. You can use create your all your gateways etc.. and it will "wire" them all together for you. On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 7:40 AM, Glyn Jackson <[email protected]>wrote: > > @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? > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > 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 > ------------------------------ > > <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> > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? 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