Re: Best practices in a thin-controller application

HI David,

David Mintz wrote:
> Which brings me to another question, maybe sort of OT. If your model's 
> constructor requires an id parameter, how do you instantiate a "blank" 
> object to be populated with data provided by the user and then -- 
> excuse me for thinking database -- inserted into a table? I am 
> thinking of RDMSes that have auto-incrementing.You find out the id 
> after the insert.

One possibility would be to use a Special Case [1] object to encapsulate 
the "blank object" concept. The special case should be interchangeable 
with the the "real" object.

[1] http://martinfowler.com/eaaCatalog/specialCase.html

Regards,
Bryce Lohr

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