my take: externally the domain API will expose specialised repositories for aggregate roots. (not all of them should have Save, and a generic FindAll is not informative imo) internally, in the repository implementations, they'd use ARMediator (or NH queries) to retrieve manipulate data
On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 1:08 PM, Colin Ramsay <colinram...@gmail.com> wrote: > Well you wouldn't necessarily have to make a repo for every entity because > you'd have a generic Repo<T> you could use. However you might create (as an > example) a UserRepo : BaseRepo<User> with a FindByUsername method as a > little syntactic sugar. > > I think many people would use a container such as windsor to avoid having > to manually instantiate their repositories. > > > On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 11:02 AM, Mark Jensen <don...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> Hi >> >> From what i can read on the internet people do really like this >> combination due to the placement of the persitance logic. >> >> how ever, i know that Castles AR has something callsed >> ActiveRecordMediator which seems to be the solution to the problem >> above. (i also know ayendes rhino commons which also have an >> implementation of the repository pattern). >> >> The questions are. >> >> 1. Will i lose something if i stop inheritting from ActiveRecordBase >> and use ActiveRecordMediatior instead? (to me it seems like i will get >> a lot more functionality/control) >> >> 2. Can someone me how to implement the Repository pattern with >> ActiveRecordMediator. I have found this example here >> >> http://www.lostechies.com/blogs/johnteague/archive/2008/05/27/using-database-repository-pattern-with-activerecord-with-activerecordmediator.aspx >> >> but to me it seems like I would have to make a Repository (and inherit >> from BaseRepository) for every Aggregate and then I need to >> instantiate the Repository it when i want to use it. >> >> Is there a better way of doing this? >> >> >> :) >> >> best regards, >> Mark >> >> > > > > -- Ken Egozi. http://www.kenegozi.com/blog http://www.delver.com http://www.musicglue.com http://www.castleproject.org http://www.gotfriends.co.il --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Castle Project Users" group. To post to this group, send email to castle-project-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to castle-project-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/castle-project-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
