Question

I am working on an application where I can have Teacher, Student etc role. Some of the functionality is similar so I also have a base class User. User contains AddRole method and other stuff.

Now, I want that when the Teacher object is created the “Teacher” role is automatically assigned to the object. I am doing this inside the constructor but I think it is ugly. Here is the code:

public class Teacher : User
    {
        public Teacher()
        {
            AddRole(new Role() { RoleName = "Teacher"});
        }
    }

There is no Teacher table in the database. Everything is User based. Teacher is just a Role and have different functionality then a Student.

How would I go about this?

Answer 1

How about

//C++ look alike pseudocode 
   public class User{
      String role;

      User (role_){role = role_;}

      String getRole(){return role;}

   }


    public class Teacher : User
        {
            public Teacher():User("Teacher")
            {

            }
        }