Hi all, In core there has always been some utility classes, the main one org.openbravo.erpCommon.utility.Utility, with generic methods to be used in the servlets. Since 2.50 and the introduction of DAL it has increased the necessity of new methods based on this new technology.
During the last months I've seen how the same methods have been applied on different modules that I think should be in core. These are some examples of methods that could be in core: * A method that given a String it parses to return a java.util.Date object. With xsql this wasn't necessary as we needed strings to build the queries, but now using OBCriteria we need a java.util.Date object to filter by dates so the need to parse the String with the Dates has increased a lot. * A method that given a class and a current value id it returns a String with the options html code, or a FieldProvider with the data to fill dependent combos. BPDebtConsolidation, mass advanced payments, mass invoicing and so on have different methods to build combos using lists instead of using ComboTableData. We should centralize them and make these modules to use them. * This one is maybe not a good example, but it is happening, a method that given a OBObject class and a string with its id returns the corresponding object. This can be currently done with: "OBDal.getInstance().get(class, strId)". In recent modules we are building a dao class where we do all the DAL accesses. This is, if we have a String with an invoice id we are creating a getInvoice method in the dao class to get the Invoice object with the "OBDal.getInstance().get(Invoice.class, strInvoiceId)" code. In the last module that I've developed I've created a more generic method with the OBObject class as a parameter. * A method that given a List with OBObjects it returns a String with the ids separated by commas. Currently we work with List objects, but if we have to create a OBQuery with an IN clause we have to convert them to a String. And I'm sure that are much more examples. I can provide the code of the mentioned methods if needed. As a side issue, it is almost impossible to know the currently available methods. Most of them are included in the mentioned Utility class without a specific order and there are other classes with useful methods. We should reorder them in different classes with friendly names and include the API somewhere in the wiki so it is easier to developers to know if it is available. Regards Gorka Ion ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SOLARIS 10 is the OS for Data Centers - provides features such as DTrace, Predictive Self Healing and Award Winning ZFS. Get Solaris 10 NOW http://p.sf.net/sfu/solaris-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Openbravo-development mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openbravo-development
