I think you could just add your derived value on your entity and then set that value on your value object when passing it across. I don't think value objects should have any operations on them, all they're for is for sending data across.
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Wouter Zoons Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2005 7:36 AM To: Walter Mour�o Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Andromda-user] ValueObject attribute 'conversion' I guess we could have people model operations on value objects, which would trigger the generation of an implementation class .. I'm not 100% sure this is a good idea because value objects are instantiated all over the place, using their currently known constructor (so not the one of the impl class) -- Wouter > Hi folks, > > sometimes I want to have an additional getter in a value object, doing > some kind of conversion. > > Let's suppose the value object have a boolean attribute called "bool" and > I want an additional getter, like "getBoolAsString" returning strings > based on the "bool" actual value. Since value objects doesn't generate > "Impl" files what should I do ? create the "Impl" by hand ? I don't like > this idea because the model will not reflect the situation. > > other suggestions ? > > Thanks, > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Walter Itamar Mour�o - Diretor de Tecnologia e Projetos - Arcadian S/A > www.arcadian.com.br > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide > Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. > Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. > http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click > _______________________________________________ > Andromda-user mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/andromda-user > ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_ide95&alloc_id396&op=ick _______________________________________________ Andromda-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/andromda-user ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_ide95&alloc_id396&op=click _______________________________________________ Andromda-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/andromda-user
