RE: My Java Experience... latest code - critique (xmlWrapper)

["Stone, Brad V (TC)" <bvstone@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

FieldList is my "row" object, so I already have that in place.

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> From: Fred Kulack [mailto:kulack@us.ibm.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2001 2:19 PM
> To: JAVA400-L@midrange.com
> Subject: RE: My Java Experience... latest code - critique (xmlWrapper)
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> Whew! This is getting sort of long,
> I might be running out of steam on it.
> 
> On 03/21/2001 at 01:09:04 PM, "Stone, Brad V (TC)" 
> <bvstone@taylorcorp.com>
> wrote:
> here's the structure... Field, FieldList (a vector of Field), 
> FieldTable (a
> vector of FieldList).
> [... snip ...]
> I'm sort of lost as to how else I can get that piece of data (the row
> wrapper) into the FieldList object.
> --- end of excerpt ---
> These two main sentences summed up where I think this
> might be able to go.
> 
> I don't view a table as a group of Field lists.
> I view it as a list of rows.
> 
> Should you add the concept of the Row in your OO design?
> It certainly is an abstraction reflected in your implementation.
> 
> I.e. you had a piece of data that served as a row wrapper,
> and an abstraction (the loop) that was effectively
> operating repeatedly on rows.
> This is an operation on a row, but you've got no
> abstraction for the row.
>       myTable.getFieldList(i).setFormatter(listFormatter);
>       myTable.getFieldList(i).xmlWrapper="Data";
>       out.println(myTable.getFieldList(i).toML());
> 
> 
> Dunno if you actually want the Row class, but perhaps
> just some methods in the table class to operate
> on the logical concept of a row is something
> that would help the thought process.
> 
> 
> 
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