Aha, yes the classic session facade vs direct access via the model debate. J
I access the scope directly but only from those two functions. I prefer this idea instead of using a facade as it's just as easy to go into my two accessor functions and change how the data is accessed as required. It's also nicely contextual as it's handled by my userService - so everything is in one place. As long as it's encapsulated it's ok with me.. --- James Allen E: [email protected] Blog: http://jamesallen.name Twitter: @CFJamesAllen (Coldfusion / Web development) Twitter: @jamesallenuk (General) From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Chris Blackwell Sent: 21 July 2009 11:30 To: [email protected] Subject: [Model-Glue] Re: Accessing session scope but are those two methods in your userService directly accessing the session scope or are you using a facade? [can of worms] *pop* 2009/7/21 James Allen <[email protected]> Hey there Gavin, What I do with accessing these kind of scopes is I encapsulate the access within my model. The best example of this is when accessing the current user which is stored in session. Within my UserService I have two methods: getCurrentUser() and setCurrentUser(). These two methods are the *only* place where the session scope is accessed relating to the user object. I like this method as it means that if I ever move from session to client I can make the change in those methods and the entire application will continue to run as it should without any other changes needed. It was also really cool when I needed to change from storing the user object itself in session to only storing the ID. Once again I only had to make the change in one place. So basically I recommend encapsulating scope access as much as possible inside the model. Cheers, James. --- James Allen E: [email protected] Blog: http://jamesallen.name Twitter: @CFJamesAllen (Coldfusion / Web development) Twitter: @jamesallenuk (General) -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Gavin Stewart Sent: 21 July 2009 09:46 To: model-glue Subject: [Model-Glue] Accessing session scope Hello there, I am a newby to model glue and was just wondering if is best practise to access the session scope in controller.cfc or is there a way to pass it in? Cheers, Gavin --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "model-glue" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/model-glue?hl=en For more about Model-Glue, check http://www.model-glue.com . -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
