On 5/27/2016 11:53 AM, Lester Caine wrote:
> On 27/05/16 10:16, Rowan Collins wrote:
>> My comment was in reaction to Lester expressing surprise at destroying
>> and re-creating objects when new data is fetched. To be clear, I'm
>> talking about this:
>>
>> // Clear old data
>> $this->data = [];
>> // Re-populate from new DB result
>> foreach ( $db_resultset as $row ) {
>> $this->data[] = new SomeModel($row);
>> }
>>
>> The most useful typehints are inside the SomeModel class, not the
>> table-level wrapper. This is true even if they're just dumb structs, and
>> all the behaviour is at the table level, because it presumably has
>> basically one field: array $data.
>
> Probably the only difference here is that '$row' in my result set is not
> a dumb structure. It has type information, field lengths and potentially
> even value constraints. So my table level wrapper can potentially have
> the same typehints that you are then adding to SomeModel. All the
> properties of SomeModel already exist and if typed properties are
> working correctly in PHP $row can simply be accessed directly. This is
> why in my book all of the debate about 'attributes' and everything else
> is so tied up in the definition of making a simple variable a much more
> flexible generic object.
>
The type hints belong to SomeModel because you want to insert the data
into SomeModel and not into your repository (Table).
class Person {
public int $id;
public DateTimeImmutable $created;
public DateTimeImmutable $changed;
public string $name;
public DateTimeImmutable $birth;
public ?DateTimeImmutable $marriage;
public ?DateTimeImmutable $death;
public int $number_of_siblings = 0;
}
class SomeModels {
public function findAll() {
foreach ($db->select('SELECT * FROM `SomeModel`') as $row) {
$some_model = new SomeModel;
$some_model->id = $row['id'];
$some_model->created = new DateTimeImmutable($row['created']);
$some_model->changed = new DateTimeImmutable($row['changed']);
$some_model->name = $row['name'];
$some_model->birth = new DateTimeImmutable($row['birth']);
if (isset($row['marriage'])) {
$some_model->marriage = new DateTimeImmutable($row['marriage']);
}
if (isset($row['death'])) {
$some_model->death = new DateTimeImmutable($row['death']);
}
$some_model->number_of_siblings = $row['number_of_siblings'];
yield $some_model;
}
}
}
The Person object is however still behaviorless and anemic, throwing
type hints at public properties does not change that fact.
--
Richard "Fleshgrinder" Fussenegger
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