Re: RPG400-L Digest, Vol 9, Issue 184

[Jon Paris <jon.paris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mar 1, 2010, at 1:20 PM, rpg400-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> Yes, that is what I thought you would do and it would work well.   
> Honestly
> though, I am still not enamored with any file encapsulation strategy  
> I have
> seen for RPG.  I guess I am coming around to a getter/setter approach
> though, simply because it offers the most flexibility.

I tend to favor the "business objects" approach. For example - I might  
want to retrieve the shipping address - I sure as heck don't want to  
implement that as a series of getter requests - yuck! Different  
groupings can be defined ranging from (say) a whole invoice, to a line  
item, to invoice totals, to ...

If the purists insist I can implement getters and setters under the  
covers to populate the "object" but even the most hardened of OO  
bigots seem to have moved away from the "Thou shalt always have a  
getter and setter for every column in thy database" silliness.


Jon Paris

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