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[Morten Olav Hansen <mortenoh@xxxxxxxxx>]

Bob,

I kinda agree with that. From what you're saying, you want something more
along the lines of an idObject + attributes? I would like that also, for
all our types really, but I don't think that's what's happening now... it's
just the tracker module that is changing..

I would like us to even look at our aggregate datamodel this way, but
(correct me if I'm wrong) Lars said it would impact our performance quite
badly... not to mention that everything would need to be rewritten

There are many benefits to at least doing this within the tracker domain,
especially with validation...

--
Morten


On Sat, Dec 7, 2013 at 3:52 PM, Bob Jolliffe <bobjolliffe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I don't like this name at all :-(
>
> I am not sure there is anything about this new entity object which
> logically ties it to tracking. So for example such an object could serve
> equally well as a base class for an orgunit or other dhis2 metadata objects
> in any future refactoring.  Isn't the key innovation that it is an object
> with minimal fixed properties?
>
> So I would be in favour of a more generic name which reflects more what
> this class will actually do rather than which area you see it its current
> specific use (things to be tracked).
>
> Something along the lines of DynamicEntity (or DynamicObject) or the like
> makes sense.   Of course you can layer tracked things on top of that.
>
> A passing thought (which also relates to other "complex" objects whose
> attributes are spread across multiple tables) is that this might also be an
> opportunity to also address the problem of how to determine "lastUpdated"
> on such objects.  Recall that this is an outstanding concern currently with
> orgunits making correct facility registry implementation impossiible.
>
> So perhaps again this is an opportunity to address the concerns in the
> current discussion in as general a way as possible so that we can try and
> reap benefits across the system.
>
> Bob
>
>
> On 6 December 2013 17:45, Morten Olav Hansen <mortenoh@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>
>> On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 1:56 PM, Jim Grace <jimgrace@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>>  TrackedEntity
>>>>
>>> +1
>>
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