To keep stuff like this below 'clean', I define a list of properties and lookup the property to get the class name........

er .extensions.sqlHelper.className.mysql=er.extensions.jdbc.MySQLSQLHelper er.extensions.sqlHelper.className.frontbase =er.extensions.jdbc.FrontBaseSQLHelper

etc.

.. and create it like this....

Class.forName( "er.extensions.sqlHelper.className." + databaseProductName ).newInstance()


YMMV, Kieran

On Sep 21, 2009, at 5:30 PM, Anjo Krank wrote:

U-huh. So how about a real world example and not these cooked up things. Take a look at the ERXSQLHelper. Depending on various types of input it creates a concrete subclass. Can DI change this to sth more "clean"?

Cheers, Anjo

 public static ERXSQLHelper newSQLHelper(String databaseProductName) {
   synchronized (_sqlHelperMap) {
     ERXSQLHelper sqlHelper = _sqlHelperMap.get(databaseProductName);
     if (sqlHelper == null) {
       try {
String sqlHelperClassName = ERXProperties.stringForKey(databaseProductName + ".SQLHelper");
         if (sqlHelperClassName == null) {
           if (databaseProductName.equalsIgnoreCase("frontbase")) {
             sqlHelper = new FrontBaseSQLHelper();
           }
           else if (databaseProductName.equalsIgnoreCase("mysql")) {
             sqlHelper = new MySQLSQLHelper();
           }
           else if (databaseProductName.equalsIgnoreCase("oracle")) {
             sqlHelper = new OracleSQLHelper();
           }
else if (databaseProductName.equalsIgnoreCase("postgresql")) {
             sqlHelper = new PostgresqlSQLHelper();
           }
else if (databaseProductName.equalsIgnoreCase("openbase")) {
             sqlHelper = new OpenBaseSQLHelper();
           }
           else if (databaseProductName.equalsIgnoreCase("derby")) {
             sqlHelper = new DerbySQLHelper();
           }
else if (databaseProductName.equalsIgnoreCase("microsoft")) {
             sqlHelper = new MicrosoftSQLHelper();
           }
           else {
             try {
sqlHelper = (ERXSQLHelper) Class.forName(ERXSQLHelper.class.getName() + "$" + databaseProductName + "SQLHelper").newInstance();
             }
             catch (ClassNotFoundException e) {
               sqlHelper = new ERXSQLHelper();
             }
           }
         }
         else {
sqlHelper = (ERXSQLHelper) Class.forName(sqlHelperClassName).newInstance();
         }
         _sqlHelperMap.put(databaseProductName, sqlHelper);
       }
       catch (Exception e) {
throw new NSForwardException(e, "Failed to create sql helper for the database with the product name '" + databaseProductName + "'.");
       }
     }
     return sqlHelper;
   }
 }



Am 21.09.2009 um 23:24 schrieb Andrew Lindesay:

Hi Anjo;

I guess this could be helpful in _some_ situations; I take for example, the Jetty server. Jetty can have a number of "handlers" added to it. Each handler does something like re-writes, feeds disk-based content, runs servlets etc.. etc.. The Jetty authors could not have envisaged all of the possible handlers that might have been written for Jetty, but because of the configuration style which follows the same line of thinking as Andrus is describing, it is possible to configure additional handlers. So that's a good example of where this seems quite helpful and Andrus' other examples also feel like good examples, but I agree that it seems like over-kill for many situations.

cheers.

Thanks for the write-up, but yeah, this can all be achieved w/o it. I really don't see why I shouldn't configure my app with if(Configration.isStaging())... and instead use DI. At least my way I easily find all the occurrences and have full logic support if(!Configuration.isStaging()). How is DI "cleaner" in any way when:

- I have any number of DI containers and their various syntax to chose from - I can't *find* the dependencies when I really want or need them. Have you ever tried to debug such an app that wasn't written by yourself? Take a look at the Red5 Media server for some fun...

___
Andrew Lindesay
www.lindesay.co.nz


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