Name: Anonymous 2010-07-04 19:10
So I have this class that represents a thing that can be created or loaded and saved, it's nice and encapsulated - it has a couple of properties that are private with public getters and setters. Nothing special, when I load this thing - properties get set directly, when I create it - I use property setters that do some sanitization and validation.
Now the question. I also, for performance reasons, need to bulk load these things.
1st, where could I put such method? It doesn't really belong on the things class, I mean static <Thing[]>Thing.Load(keys[]) doesn't look right at all.
2nd, how would I initialize these things? I don't want to use the public setters, because, as I mentioned, they do some checking that's necessary only the first time, when I'm loading it from the storage, everything is already sane. I also don't want to expose the properties publicly. Currently I have a constructor that takes all properties and sets them directly, but that's ugly.
Now the question. I also, for performance reasons, need to bulk load these things.
1st, where could I put such method? It doesn't really belong on the things class, I mean static <Thing[]>Thing.Load(keys[]) doesn't look right at all.
2nd, how would I initialize these things? I don't want to use the public setters, because, as I mentioned, they do some checking that's necessary only the first time, when I'm loading it from the storage, everything is already sane. I also don't want to expose the properties publicly. Currently I have a constructor that takes all properties and sets them directly, but that's ugly.