This whole discussion is why some of us think the DAO pattern is evil (along with CRUD) ;)
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Raymond Camden Sent: Monday, November 15, 2004 3:20 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [CFCDev] table DAO Ok, so you don't like Doug's idea - but can you explain how you do filters on the result sets then? Do you do it in the client? Do you pass filter info to the dao? =========================================================================== Raymond Camden, Director of Development for Mindseye, Inc (www.mindseye.com) Member of Team Macromedia (http://www.macromedia.com/go/teammacromedia) Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Blog : www.camdenfamily.com/morpheus/blog Yahoo IM : cfjedimaster "My ally is the Force, and a powerful ally it is." - Yoda > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tim Van Der Hulst > Sent: Monday, November 15, 2004 2:18 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [CFCDev] table DAO > > getAllActive() > getByOwner( ownerID ) > getAllPrecedingDate( date ) > > oh yep avoid that stuff like the plague. haha my early DAO's > were like that before I realised all I needed was the one > base DAO and the very occasional need to create a specialised > subclassed DAO. Mind you in saying that I still haven't > really tackled multiple tables/joins yet tho. > > TiM > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Doug Keen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, 16 November 2004 9:13 a.m. > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [CFCDev] table DAO > > > > Ok then - so that brings up -another- question. getAll by > itself, IS rare. > > Most of the time I'm doing getAll where Active=1, or getAll where > > Owner=Me, or some such. So if we have a Gateway CFC to > handle getting > > a bunch of crap, where do we put filters? That's business > logic - and > > it seems like it would make sense in the core CFC for the datatype. > > Often, in that situation, I'll actually create different > methods for different filtering options. For example, I may > have a CFC with these > *public* methods: > getAll() > getAllActive() > getByOwner( ownerID ) > getAllPrecedingDate( date ) > > Those public methods would then simply relay the call to a > *private* method that contains the SQL and could have an > interface like Tim > describes: > getAll( condition, order ) > > That way, you get the best of both worlds... the caller > doesn't know about the table structure, but your SQL code is > isolated in a single private method. The public methods > simply relay the appropriate information into the private > method and return the results. > ---------------------------------------------------------- > You are subscribed to cfcdev. To unsubscribe, send an email > to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the words 'unsubscribe cfcdev' > in the message of the email. > > CFCDev is run by CFCZone (www.cfczone.org) and supported by > Mindtool, Corporation (www.mindtool.com). > > An archive of the CFCDev list is available at > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ## > ## > ---------------------------------------------------------- > You are subscribed to cfcdev. To unsubscribe, send an email > to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the words 'unsubscribe cfcdev' > in the message of the email. > > CFCDev is run by CFCZone (www.cfczone.org) and supported by > Mindtool, Corporation (www.mindtool.com). > > An archive of the CFCDev list is available at > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ---------------------------------------------------------- You are subscribed to cfcdev. To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the words 'unsubscribe cfcdev' in the message of the email. CFCDev is run by CFCZone (www.cfczone.org) and supported by Mindtool, Corporation (www.mindtool.com). An archive of the CFCDev list is available at [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------------------------------------- You are subscribed to cfcdev. To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the words 'unsubscribe cfcdev' in the message of the email. CFCDev is run by CFCZone (www.cfczone.org) and supported by Mindtool, Corporation (www.mindtool.com). An archive of the CFCDev list is available at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
