Question

I’m working on a project which has a rich domain-model.

Some of my classes have collections of other types, and those other types have a property that refers back to their ‘owner’. This sounds maybe a bit cryptic, so a code example would help:

public class Product {     private IList<ProductPrice> _prices = new List<ProductPrice>();      public void AddPrice( ProductPrice price )     {        price.Product = this;        _prices.Add (price);     } }  public class ProductPrice {     public DateTime ValidationDate {get; set;}     public Decimal  Price {get; set;}     public Product Product {get; set;} } 

The question is: what name do you prefer for the ‘Product’ property of the ProductPrice class ?

Would you name it: – Product (like it is now) – Owner – BelongsTo – something else ?

Answer 1

Product – there’s no ambiguity and the naming is consistent – Product stays Product everywhere.

If accessing the property from outside, I’d prefer having this:

price.Product.Name 

than this:

price.Owner.Name