+1 for all suggestions, seems good improvements to me :-) - Best Regards, Swapnil M Mane H <http://www.hotwaxsystems.com/>otWax Systems <http://www.hotwaxsystems.com/> - *The global leader in innovative enterprise commerce s**olutions **powered by Apache OFBiz.* ApacheCon US 2015 Silver Sponsor <http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/archive/2015/apachecon-north-america>
On Tue, Jul 12, 2016 at 2:01 PM, Rishi Solanki <rishisolan...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear Folks, > > While working/reviewing recent work in community, I observed some > improvement/fixes required at entity and related service implementation. > For few entities like InvoiceAttribute, InvoiceType, etc. no service exists > to create/update/delete. At the time of writing migration scripts I always > see lack of such services, which can be used to define new types or > attributes. Also Many entities have some other problems in basic design of > CRUD operations and in definitions; > > On further look into this in detail found many such entities which do not > have services. I would like to propose a refactoring at basic design level > which covers following which does not impact on functionality we have; > > 1) Many entity definitions having relationships with view-entities, like > OrderHeader entity maintain relationship with OrderHeaderNoteView and > OrderItemAndShipGroupAssoc. We should remove it, maintain the relationship > at view-entities level if required. Also change the code where this > relation is in use. > 2) Many entities having service implementation exists but they can be > simply convert into entity-auto, that means can use the power OFBiz > provides. > 3) As mentioned initially many entities do not have CRUD services exists, > we should implement or use entity-auto for them wherever applicable. Also > remove direct use of delegator for them. > 4) Many entities having from date and thru date, Or status Or Enumeration > to manage the historical data, but services actually remove those entity > data. We should change the service implementation to maintain the > historical data. > > After this effort, OFBiz will have minimum direct use of delegator, > enriched use of service engine, we would be able to established > patterns/best practice to introduce a new entities, and writing new > services. > > I would love to hear more improvements in this area from community. We will > add them in this effort only. > > > Rishi Solanki > Manager, Enterprise Software Development > HotWax Systems Pvt. Ltd. > Direct: +91-9893287847 > http://www.hotwaxsystems.com >