Hello,
I have a bit of an organization problem I am coming up against, and I
wanted to see how other developers have handled similar problems.
I have a controller action with lots of supporting private functions
in the controller. There are also several components used by this
action. I have this situation appear a few more times throughout my
App and sometimes twice in one controller. It inevitably crops up when
doing significant AJAX processing.
Before I go any farther in development, I am going to reorganize these
classes and methods so that there is greater logic encapsulation in my
controllers and better organization of my components. I have few
ideas, and I wanted to see if others have ideas too. I am sure many of
you have dealt with this before.
Possible solutions:
1. Move the action and supporting methods to a new controller without
a model
- I don't like this because I have a complex data model and
therefore a lot of controllers. I don't want to clutter my controller
directory nor ignore the spirit of the controller as logic for a
specific model.
2. Move the controller action and supporting methods to a component.
And, perhaps move this class and related components to a subdirectory
of the component folder.
- I don't like this because either the components file will be
cluttered with lots of components or lots of subdirectories. Also
these components would undermine the spirit of the component as a
supporting logic for an action.
3. Move the the action and supporting methods to it's own folder and
class in the vendors folder, with supporting classes in a
subdirectory.
- I like this option the most, because I get the encapsulation of
logic and the organization of the file structure while adhering to the
conventions of the controller and component.
What solutions have other people come up with?
Josh
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