I wanted to bump this thread back up to the top as unfortunately it's gone without reply and the team at BOWPI who are really itching to contribute are blocked.
Could any of our committers please respond to their queries regarding coding standards so they can unblock themselves and make the changes they want to contribute to Fineract. Thanks, Ed On Fri, Mar 2, 2018 at 9:09 AM, Angel Cajas <angel.ca...@bowpi.com> wrote: > Hi, my name is Angel Cajas from BOWPI and I am making some changes to some > features developed by us some months ago to use the same methods and > validations already existing for some tasks such as the permission > settings, the serialization and deserialization of json request and data > retrieval from database. > > > While I'm doing those changes and start to understand how fineract works > some questions have arisen for me. Some may seem trivial but I would like > to get some feedback from the dev team if it is possible. > > > -According to the wiki, the coding conventions used for this project are > based on Google Java Style > <https://google.github.io/styleguide/javaguide.html> of coding. Regarding > block indentation and column limit, I've seen in some classes those rules > aren't followed and I would like to know if another coding style that isn't > documented is being used as of right now or should I reformat the code > after modifying some existing classes. > > > -I've seen there isn't an option to create new permissions, so these must > be inserted directly into the database, should these be included in a new > script file or is there another way to add this new objects that I am not > aware of? > > > -When reading using a ReadService a RowMapper is being used to transform > the query result to a DTO I guess it's because the result shouldn't include > all the fields saved in the database and just show the relevant ones and > I've seen some queries are saved as strings. It's OK to use repository > functions to retrieve such data instead of saving the query in a string? > and It is necessary all the entities be converted to DTOs when using the > ReadPlatformService? > > > I would really appreciate your help and feedback and thanks for your > attention. > > > -- *Ed Cable* President/CEO, Mifos Initiative edca...@mifos.org | Skype: edcable | Mobile: +1.484.477.8649 *Collectively Creating a World of 3 Billion Maries | *http://mifos.org <http://facebook.com/mifos> <http://www.twitter.com/mifos>
