Question

I need to build a class that will represent a row in some table in DB (lets say the table is ‘Subscriber’ and so is the class).

1. I can have the class Subscriber which constructor receives the Objectkey of subscriber, retrieves info from DB and initializes its members.

2. I add another class – SubscriberLoader which have a static method ‘LoadSubscriber’. This method will receive the subscriber objectkey, retrieve info from DB, crate a Subscriber object and initialize its members. Subscriber constructor will be private and SubscirberLoader will be friend class of Subscriber – this way, client could build a Subscriber only using the loader.

which of the two is better? any other suggestions?

Answer 1

I’d recommend the second approach, because it separates two concerns into two separate classes:

• the concern of whatever a subscriber is supposed to do
• the concern of extracting a subscriber from the database