On Saturday, March 28, 2015 at 7:36:26 AM UTC+11, Colin Yates wrote:
> I have various chunks of reference data, say a tree or a list of _all_ (i.e. 
> active and historical) entities. I then have various subscriptions which 
> refine that view, for example:
>  - only active 
>  - only active but including a given id
> 
> In the handler I sometimes need access to this data, but according to the 
> re-frame doc:
> 
> "Rules:
> 
> components never source data directly from app-db, and instead, they use a 
> subscription.
> subscriptions are only ever used by components (they are never used in, say, 
> event handlers)."
> 
> I can work around this - the subscription code typically delegates to a 
> 'plain' defn so I can retrieve the data from the db and call the same defn, 
> but sometimes that jars a bit.
> 
> The fact it is useful for me to do something not only discouraged but 
> actively against the rules makes me question my design somewhat; what is the 
> rationale for not allowing an event handler to view a subscription? Am I 
> wrong in viewing a subscription as merely a view on the data in which case I 
> don't see the danger...
> 
> I get that components should be divorced from the structure of the DB and 
> event handlers necessarily need to know the structure but I see a 
> subscriptions as more than just structure - it sometimes applies 
> transformations that I would want to re-use.
> 
> Thanks!

My suggestion:  factor out the reusable code (like "only-active") into a 
function.  Then you can wrap that function in a subscription OR use the 
function directly in the handlers. 

--
Mike



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