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Re: Re (tilly) 5: Object Oriented Pattern helpby zigster (Hermit) |
on May 14, 2001 at 14:28 UTC ( [id://80177]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
I fail to understand what you think a more complex approach buys. I am not sure it is more complex, it is different certainly. IMHO the difference between the factory and singleton pattern is simply that the factory object constructs an object that it no longer has a handle too while the singleton preserves a handle to enable global access. You are correct that there is no good reason to wrap a dbi connection in a seperate object, I was getting over-excited in an OO sense (scary picture right there). However I do stand by my criticm regarding using a singleton in this context. There is no reason to give global access so you should not. The ONLY advantage of my more complex design is in design purity. IMHO it is well worth coding effort to show intent, and even to enforce intent. OO programming advocates this at many levels. The patterns in OO programming are useful only if they are used in the way intended, my original node described the intent for a singleton. It is my belief that in this case a singleton resolves many of the technical issues but does not clearly show intent. Singleton Intent Ensure a class only has one instance and provide a global point of access to it. There will not be one instance of the connection class and a global point of access is only required to work around a scoping problem. The factory and faceted combination would seem to be closer to the requirement. In my mind an implementation of a factory and facteted combination would require VERY little additional coding effort.
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I must first confess to ignorance, you talk about causing the webserver to control the number of database handles that are availible. I have no experience of doing this. I have always controlled connection pooling at an application level, but then most of my dev is in large scale app land not web stuff. I will therefore bow to your superior knowledge here. My instincts tell me that I would still like to control them directly but I cannot justify it technically as I know little of the pros and cons.
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