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  • how to design this relation in a DB schema

    - by raticulin
    I have a table Car in my db, one of the columns is purchaseDate. I want to be able to tag every car with a number of Policies (limited to 10 policies). Each policy has a time to life (ttl, a duration of time, like '5 years', '10 months' etc), that is, for how long since the car's purchaseDate the policy can be applied. I need to perform the following actions: when inserting a Car, it will be set with a number of Policies (at least one is set) sometimes a Car will be updated to add/remove a Policy searches must be done taking into account date/policies, for example: 'select all cars that are not covered by any policy as of today' My current design is (pol0..pol9 are the policies): CREATE TABLE Car ( id int NOT NULL IDENTITY(1,1), purchaseDate datetime NOT NULL, //more stuff... pol0 smallint default NULL, pol1 smallint default NULL, pol2 smallint default NULL, pol3 smallint default NULL, pol4 smallint default NULL, pol5 smallint default NULL, pol6 smallint default NULL, pol7 smallint default NULL, pol8 smallint default NULL, pol9 smallint default NULL, PRIMARY KEY (id) ) CREATE TABLE Policy ( id smallint NOT NULL, name varchar(50) collate Latin1_General_BIN NOT NULL, ttl varchar(100) collate Latin1_General_BIN NOT NULL, PRIMARY KEY (id) ) The problem I am facing is that the sql to perform the query above is a nightmare to write. As I don't know in which column each policy can be, so I have to check all columns for every policy etc etc. So I am wondering wether it is worth changing this. My questions are: The smallint as Policy id was chosen instead of an 'int IDENTITY' in order to save some space as there are going to be millions of Car records. It just adds complexity when creating a Policy as we must handle the id etc. Was it worth doing this? I am thinking that maybe there is a much better design? Obviously we could move the policy/car relation to its own table CarPolicy, benefits would be: no limit on 10 policies per car adding/removing etc much easier when only the default policy is applied (when no others are applied one called Default policy is applied), we could signal that by not having any entry in CarPolicy, now this is just done inserting the Default policy id in one of the columns. The cons are that we would need to change the DB, ORM classes etc. What would you recommend? Maybe there is another smart way to implement this that we are not aware without using the CarPolicy table?

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  • Designing different Factory classes (and what to use as argument to the factories!)

    - by devoured elysium
    Let's say we have the following piece of code: public class Event { } public class SportEvent1 : Event { } public class SportEvent2 : Event { } public class MedicalEvent1 : Event { } public class MedicalEvent2 : Event { } public interface IEventFactory { bool AcceptsInputString(string inputString); Event CreateEvent(string inputString); } public class EventFactory { private List<IEventFactory> factories = new List<IEventFactory>(); public void AddFactory(IEventFactory factory) { factories.Add(factory); } //I don't see a point in defining a RemoveFactory() so I won't. public Event CreateEvent(string inputString) { try { //iterate through all factories. If one and only one of them accepts //the string, generate the event. Otherwise, throw an exception. return factories.Single(factory => factory.AcceptsInputString(inputString)).CreateEvent(inputString); } catch (InvalidOperationException e) { throw new InvalidOperationException("No valid factory found to generate this kind of Event!", e); } } } public class SportEvent1Factory : IEventFactory { public bool AcceptsInputString(string inputString) { return inputString.StartsWith("SportEvent1"); } public Event CreateEvent(string inputString) { return new SportEvent1(); } } public class MedicalEvent1Factory : IEventFactory { public bool AcceptsInputString(string inputString) { return inputString.StartsWith("MedicalEvent1"); } public Event CreateEvent(string inputString) { return new MedicalEvent1(); } } And here is the code that runs it: static void Main(string[] args) { EventFactory medicalEventFactory = new EventFactory(); medicalEventFactory.AddFactory(new MedicalEvent1Factory()); medicalEventFactory.AddFactory(new MedicalEvent2Factory()); EventFactory sportsEventFactory = new EventFactory(); sportsEventFactory.AddFactory(new SportEvent1Factory()); sportsEventFactory.AddFactory(new SportEvent2Factory()); } I have a couple of questions: Instead of having to add factories here in the main method of my application, should I try to redesign my EventFactory class so it is an abstract factory? It'd be better if I had a way of not having to manually add EventFactories every time I want to use them. So I could just instantiate MedicalFactory and SportsFactory. Should I make a Factory of factories? Maybe that'd be over-engineering? As you have probably noticed, I am using a inputString string as argument to feed the factories. I have an application that lets the user create his own events but also to load/save them from text files. Later, I might want to add other kinds of files, XML, sql connections, whatever. The only way I can think of that would allow me to make this work is having an internal format (I choose a string, as it's easy to understand). How would you make this? I assume this is a recurrent situation, probably most of you know of any other more intelligent approach to this. I am then only looping in the EventFactory for all the factories in its list to check if any of them accepts the input string. If one does, then it asks it to generate the Event. If you find there is something wrong or awkward with the method I'm using to make this happen, I'd be happy to hear about different implementations. Thanks! PS: Although I don't show it in here, all the different kind of events have different properties, so I have to generate them with different arguments (SportEvent1 might have SportName and Duration properties, that have to be put in the inputString as argument).

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  • Basic Database Design

    - by Thurein
    Hi, This question would be a bit childish, I have three tables, users, usergroups and contacts. In my system, the end user can create a contact and subsequently he\she may define the visibility of the contact by setting only for that user, or for a set of users or a set of usergroups. So I am wondering, how my database design would be, it should be many to many between users and contacts or many to many between usergroups and contacts. Definitely there is a one to many relationship between users and usergroups. Thanks Thurein

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  • Java programming accessing object variables

    - by Haxed
    Helo, there are 3 files, CustomerClient.java, CustomerServer.java and Customer.java PROBLEM: In the CustomerServer.java file, i get an error when I compile the CustomerServer.java at line : System.out.println(a[k].getName()); ERROR: init: deps-jar: Compiling 1 source file to C:\Documents and Settings\TLNA\My Documents\NetBeansProjects\Server\build\classes C:\Documents and Settings\TLNA\My Documents\NetBeansProjects\Server\src\CustomerServer.java:44: cannot find symbol symbol : method getName() location: class Customer System.out.println(a[k].getName()); 1 error BUILD FAILED (total time: 0 seconds) CustomerClient.java import java.io.*; import java.net.*; import java.awt.*; import java.awt.event.*; import javax.swing.*; import javax.swing.border.*; public class CustomerClient extends JApplet { private JTextField jtfName = new JTextField(32); private JTextField jtfSeatNo = new JTextField(32); // Button for sending a student to the server private JButton jbtRegister = new JButton("Register to the Server"); // Indicate if it runs as application private boolean isStandAlone = false; // Host name or ip String host = "localhost"; public void init() { JPanel p1 = new JPanel(); p1.setLayout(new GridLayout(2, 1)); p1.add(new JLabel("Name")); p1.add(jtfName); p1.add(new JLabel("Seat No.")); p1.add(jtfSeatNo); add(p1, BorderLayout.CENTER); add(jbtRegister, BorderLayout.SOUTH); // Register listener jbtRegister.addActionListener(new ButtonListener()); // Find the IP address of the Web server if (!isStandAlone) { host = getCodeBase().getHost(); } } /** Handle button action */ private class ButtonListener implements ActionListener { public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) { try { // Establish connection with the server Socket socket = new Socket(host, 8000); // Create an output stream to the server ObjectOutputStream toServer = new ObjectOutputStream(socket.getOutputStream()); // Get text field String name = jtfName.getText().trim(); String seatNo = jtfSeatNo.getText().trim(); // Create a Student object and send to the server Customer s = new Customer(name, seatNo); toServer.writeObject(s); } catch (IOException ex) { System.err.println(ex); } } } /** Run the applet as an application */ public static void main(String[] args) { // Create a frame JFrame frame = new JFrame("Register Student Client"); // Create an instance of the applet CustomerClient applet = new CustomerClient(); applet.isStandAlone = true; // Get host if (args.length == 1) { applet.host = args[0]; // Add the applet instance to the frame } frame.add(applet, BorderLayout.CENTER); // Invoke init() and start() applet.init(); applet.start(); // Display the frame frame.pack(); frame.setVisible(true); } } CustomerServer.java import java.io.*; import java.net.*; public class CustomerServer { private String name; private int i; private ObjectOutputStream outputToFile; private ObjectInputStream inputFromClient; public static void main(String[] args) { new CustomerServer(); } public CustomerServer() { Customer[] a = new Customer[30]; try { // Create a server socket ServerSocket serverSocket = new ServerSocket(8000); System.out.println("Server started "); // Create an object ouput stream outputToFile = new ObjectOutputStream( new FileOutputStream("student.dat", true)); while (true) { // Listen for a new connection request Socket socket = serverSocket.accept(); // Create an input stream from the socket inputFromClient = new ObjectInputStream(socket.getInputStream()); // Read from input //Object object = inputFromClient.readObject(); for (int k = 0; k <= 2; k++) { if (a[k] == null) { a[k] = (Customer) inputFromClient.readObject(); // Write to the file outputToFile.writeObject(a[k]); //System.out.println("A new student object is stored"); System.out.println(a[k].getName()); break; } if (k == 2) { //fully booked outputToFile.writeObject("All seats are booked"); break; } } } } catch (ClassNotFoundException ex) { ex.printStackTrace(); } catch (IOException ex) { ex.printStackTrace(); } finally { try { inputFromClient.close(); outputToFile.close(); } catch (Exception ex) { ex.printStackTrace(); } } } } Customer.java public class Customer implements java.io.Serializable { private String name; private String seatno; public Customer(String name, String seatno) { this.name = name; this.seatno = seatno; } public String getName() { return name; } public String getSeatNo() { return seatno; } }

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  • Design pattern to separate messages from actual process.

    - by Manish Gupta
    I am having a C# application to sync data between PC and palm devices. There are codes written like below: showMessage("synchronizing Table1"); Sync(destTable1,sourceTable1); Sync(destTable2,sourceTable2); showMessage("synchronizing Table2"); // more code How do I separate the actual process of synchronizing from displaying message? Which design pattern to follow? Thanks in advance...

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  • OOP design for DMS that allows searching and grouping

    - by James P.
    I'd like to make a searchable Document Management System and allow a user to group documents together. On one hand, there would be a functionality that registers/fingerprints in a linear fashion and, on the other, one that associates documents into groups. How could I compromise between the two in terms of object design?

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  • When should I use a struct instead of a class?

    - by Esteban Araya
    MSDN says that you should use structs when you need lightweight objects. Are there any other scenarios when a struct is preferable over a class? Edit: Some people have forgotten that: 1. structs can have methods! 2. structs have no inheritance capabilites. Another Edit: I understand the technical differences, I just don't have a good feel for WHEN to use a struct.

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  • Inheritence and usage of dynamic_cast

    - by Mewzer
    Hello, Suppose I have 3 classes as follows (as this is an example, it will not compile!): class Base { public: Base(){} virtual ~Base(){} virtual void DoSomething() = 0; virtual void DoSomethingElse() = 0; }; class Derived1 { public: Derived1(){} virtual ~Derived1(){} virtual void DoSomething(){ ... } virtual void DoSomethingElse(){ ... } virtual void SpecialD1DoSomething{ ... } }; class Derived2 { public: Derived2(){} virtual ~Derived2(){} virtual void DoSomething(){ ... } virtual void DoSomethingElse(){ ... } virtual void SpecialD2DoSomething{ ... } }; I want to create an instance of Derived1 or Derived2 depending on some setting that is not available until run-time. As I cannot determine the derived type until run-time, then do you think the following is bad practice?... class X { public: .... void GetConfigurationValue() { .... // Get configuration setting, I need a "Derived1" b = new Derived1(); // Now I want to call the special DoSomething for Derived1 (dynamic_cast<Derived1*>(b))->SpecialD1DoSomething(); } private: Base* b; }; I have generally read that usage of dynamic_cast is bad, but as I said, I don't know which type to create until run-time. Please help!

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  • Best practice for passing configuration to each GUI object

    - by Laimoncijus
    Hi, I am writing an application, where I do have few different windows implemented, where each window is a separate class. Now I need somehow to pass a single configuration object to all of them. My GUI is designed in way, where I have one main window, which may create some child windows of its own, and these child windows can have their own childs (so there is no possibility to create all windows in initialization part and feed the config object to all of them from the very beginning)... What would be best practice for sharing this configuration object between them? Always passing via constructor or maybe making it somewhere as final public static and let each window object to access it when needed? Thanks

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  • (database design):Which tables should be created for all kindes files (images, attached email files,

    - by meyosef
    Hi, I new in database design: I have question with my own few solution,what do you thinks?: Which tables should be created for all kinds files (images, attached email files,text files for store email body, etc..) that stored in my online store? *option 1:use seperate table for files types * files{ id files_types_id FK file_path file_extension } files_types{ id type_name (unique) } *option 2: use bool field for each file type * files{ id file_path file_extension is_image_main is_image_icon is_image_logo is_pdf_file is_text_file } **option 3: use 1 enum field 'file_type' for each file type ** files{ id file_path file_extension file_type (image_main,image_icon,image_logo,image_main,pdf,text) **enum** } Thanks you, Yosef

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  • PHP Access property of a class from within a class instantiated in the original class.

    - by Iain
    I'm not certain how to explain this with the correct terms so maybe an example is the best method... $master = new MasterClass(); $master->doStuff(); class MasterClass { var $a; var $b; var $c; var $eventProccer; function MasterClass() { $this->a = 1; $this->eventProccer = new EventProcess(); } function printCurrent() { echo '<br>'.$this->a.'<br>'; } function doStuff() { $this->printCurrent(); $this->eventProccer->DoSomething(); $this->printCurrent(); } } class EventProcess { function EventProcess() {} function DoSomething() { // trying to access and change the parent class' a,b,c properties } } My problem is i'm not certain how to access the properties of the MasterClass from within the EventProcess-DoSomething() method? I would need to access, perform operations on and update the properties. The a,b,c properties will be quite large arrays and the DoSomething() method would be called many times during the execuction of the script. Any help or pointers would be much appreciated :)

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  • Right design to validate attributes of a class instance

    - by systempuntoout
    Having a simple Python class like this: class Spam(object): __init__(self, description, value): self.description = description self.value = value Which is the correct approach to check these constraints: "description cannot be empty" "value must be greater than zero" Should i: 1.validate data before creating spam object ? 2.check data on __init__ method ? 3.create an is_valid method on Spam class and call it with spam.isValid() ? 4.create an is_valid static method on Spam class and call it with Spam.isValid(description, value) ? 5.check data on setters? 6.... Could you recommend a well designed\Pythonic\not verbose (on class with many attributes)\elegant approach?

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  • Tools and environments supporting Domain Driven Design (DDD)

    - by anthares
    Hi everyone, I'm doing a kind of research on the topic "Domain Driven Design". My question is what tools (or maybe environments) do you use, that support this paradigm? I know that I can google it, but I wonder which of them actually work and are useful, since I have no experience with neither of them. I'm interesting mainly in the .NET Framework, but any other opinions are also welcome! Thanks !

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  • good c++ documentation design example?

    - by Eye of Hell
    Hello. I'm tuning documentation generator for internal purpose that generates HTML documentation for C++ classes and methods. Is it any example available of good HTML documentation design? MSDN ( like this ) looks kinda outdated, same is doxygen / javadoc / sphinx results. Anyone ever see an documentation that looks REALLY good?

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  • Persistance Queue Implementation

    - by Winter
    I was reading an article on Batch Processing in java over at JDJ http://java.sys-con.com/node/415321 . The article mentioned using a persistence queue as a Batch Updater instead of immediately sending an individual insert or update to the database. The author doesn't give a concrete example of this concept so I googled Persistence Queue but that didn't come up with much. Does anyone know of a good example of this?

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  • What would be a good starting point for development of a 3D application for representation of struct

    - by Lela Dax
    I was thinking QT on OpenGL. Multiplatform ability and being able to be closed (at no cost) at a later point would be important points. But I'm very interested in finding a way that is not only viable but also has the least amount of reinvention of the wheel. e.g. "Why not Ogre? A ready powerful 3D engine without reinventing that part". But I'm very uncertain in what is the optimal collection of tools for that job.

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