yes that makes sense but then again most tables are the real world entities 
(objects) anyway..

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damn why do posts to this mailing list show up delayed sometimes??
Time to repost and then go doh! when it shows up twice. hehe



-----Original Message-----
From: Dawson, Michael [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, 16 November 2004 9:22 a.m.
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [CFCDev] table DAO


But, theoretically, you shouldn't think in terms of tables, but think in
terms of objects.  An object may need to store data in multiple tables.
You would then have a DAO for that object.  In the DAO, you may have a
method "create()" that inserts a new record in the main table, then
inserts a default child record in a userType table.

Or, is that the business logic that handles that?

:-S

M!ke

-----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.
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