[Koha-devel] Koha and DBIC

[Kyle Hall]

I completely agree. You've described the issue more succinctly and
eloquently than I have by far.

Kyle

On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 4:15 AM, Colin Campbell <
colin.campbell at ptfs-europe.com> wrote:

> Its worth keeping in mind that DBIC is an Object Relational mapper and
> that as such returns objects which are often better abstrations than
> those currently embodied in Koha's module approach which tend to fiddle
> with the representation of the entity not always very consistently. In a
> multitude of cases a ResultSet of x objects and their inherent getters
> and setters is all we need to construct the operations we need. In such
> cases wrapping the layer in another one for purely formal reasons
> contributes little except for more space to harbour bugs.
> DBIC allows you to add extra methods to these objects and I'm sure in
> time we'll identify plenty of these but we should be very thorough in
> reviewing whether we need them, how we've implemented them and whether
> the need is merely pointing up a shortcoming in the schema.
>
> Colin
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