2009/9/10 Benjamin Eberlei <kont...@beberlei.de>: > > The approach you are describing is misusing Zend Entity as a data access > layer > only, however its purpose is really managing of object identities. Although > its possible to dynamically set a different metadata model based on > properties > its really not recommended at all and there will be no support with > whatever > problems might occur with this use case. > > Instead a good use-case would be nest the ACL inside your entities and > allow > the request of certain data/relations only if these acls are meet. This way > you push the access of different properties to the domain model and > abstract > from the persistence, which is what Zend Entity is about. > > It seems however with what you describe Zend_Db_Table is a pretty good > access strategy for your relational data, Zend_Entity however is about > objects that are instantiated completly. Partially loaded objects won't be > supported. > > greetings, > Benjamin
Are there any plans to have a criteria type object for creating repositories? > > On Wed, 9 Sep 2009 16:43:19 -0700 (PDT), Chris Murray <cmur...@murtek.com> > wrote: >> Chris Murray wrote: >>> >>> So I need to be able to dynamically set the property list in Zend_Entity >>> >> >> Another possible approach would be to create my own def object generator. > I >> already have my definitions in my model and they are used for other >> purposes, such as form element configs, formatting, and display > properties. >> So, I could build the def object and pass it to >> Zend_Entity_MetadataFactory_Code (rather than passing in a file path). > That >> way, I don't have to create multiple def files for each unique > combination >> of properties that are used in my application. Instead, just build the > def >> object dynamically based on already existing, multi-purpose object > property >> lists and their individual attributes. >> >> Is that a better way to do it? > -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- [MuTe] ----------------------------------------------------------------------
