Question

I have certain objects in my domain which are not aggregate roots/entities, yet I still need to retrieve them from a database. I don’t want to confuse things by creating repositories for these things. So, what are alternative data access patterns? Would you simply create a DAO for them, while still of course separating the interface?

Edit:

Some more detail on what I’m doing. I need to create a code. This code has certain rules as to its format. One of the rules is that the final character must be a unique number incremented by one from the last code generated. For example:

ABCD1 ABCD2 ABCD3

So, I’m keeping a table with one row, one column to store the number in question. Now, I don’t want to consider this number an entity and create a repository for it – that’s overkill. I just need a way of retrieving the number, adding 1 to it, and saving it. I know there are myriad ways I could do it, but I’m wondering if there’s an customary way.

Answer 1

After surveying the options I’m going with the Table Gateway pattern.