I am trying to get into Mach-ii and just read Ben Edwards' article
about using Beans. I have been using for some time a method of data
encapsulation that relies on implicit arguments. In my CFC I declare an
instance struct within the variables scope - nothing new there. Then I
have two functions, get(string varName) and set(string varName, string
varValue) which search the instance scope for the variable requested.
If it does not exist, get returns an empty string, while set creates
the variable and assigns it the given value. This has worked well for
rapid application development (I am the only CF/database developer at
my company, so I develop application code alongside developing database
schemas.) but I know it's not really a best practice. My question is,
what is the general consensus concerning the use of beans, with their
strict rules of getters and setters, and what are people's thoughts on
my method? It has definitely saved me time, with only a few small
caveats (dealing with undefined numeric values, for example.)
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