RE: [Reactor For CF] is the idea of an iterator in a gateway flawed?

[Doug Hughes]

Why do that when there already exists an Iterator object?    <cfset ThingIterator = reactorFactory.createIterator(“Thing”) />   Doug   From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dave Shuck Sent: Tuesday, March 21, 2006 7:24 PM To: reactor@doughughes.net Subject: [Reactor For CF] is the idea of an iterator in a gateway flawed?   I was talking to a fellow developer about Reactor today and he asked if a gateway had the ability to return not only a query, but possibly an array of instantiated objects.  My knee jerk reaction was that this is normally not done and gateways normally return query recordsets, but I couldn't answer the "why not?".  Is it a bad idea for there to be some type of getIterator() in the gateway that accepted a query recordset along the lines of: <cfset ThingGateway = Reactor.createGateway("Thing")  /> <cfset ThingIterator = ThingGateway.getIterator(ThingGateway.getAll()) /> I haven't really worked through this thoroughly and I am fairly certain that there must be a reason this isn't done, but could someone explain it? If there isn't a reason this shouldn't be done, is this something that could be considered? Thanks! -- ~Dave Shuck [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.daveshuck.com www.worldwildweb.biz -- Reactor for ColdFusion Mailing List -- reactor@doughughes.net -- Archives at http://www.mail-archive.com/reactor%40doughughes.net/ -- Reactor for ColdFusion Mailing List -- reactor@doughughes.net -- Archives at http://www.mail-archive.com/reactor%40doughughes.net/