There is a lot of technical debt in associations, resulting in a number of violations of SRP, unnecessary methods (see all the predicate methods in Association), and weird behaviors like #197. This refactor should:
1) Redefine and move behaviors into subclasses of Association. This will allow further and simpler specialization of association behavior.
2) Remove proxy classes for singular associations, which will resolve #197. Instead, Association subclasses will be called upon to define methods on the owner for getters/setters/builders/etc.
3) Reduce the confusion of responsibility in all of the One/Many/Linked/StoredKey modules for proxies. A simpler inheritance structure should be derived.
seancribbs
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12 years ago
There is a lot of technical debt in associations, resulting in a number of violations of SRP, unnecessary methods (see all the predicate methods in
Association), and weird behaviors like #197. This refactor should:1) Redefine and move behaviors into subclasses of
Association. This will allow further and simpler specialization of association behavior. 2) Remove proxy classes for singular associations, which will resolve #197. Instead,Associationsubclasses will be called upon to define methods on the owner for getters/setters/builders/etc. 3) Reduce the confusion of responsibility in all of the One/Many/Linked/StoredKey modules for proxies. A simpler inheritance structure should be derived.