Re: Critique of Robert C. Martin's "Agile Principles, Patterns, and Practices"

frebe73@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

You claim that it is possible to only have a few number of
getEmployeeBySomeCriteria methods with optimized SQL statements for
every different way you might need to fetch employee data? That should
only be possible for rather small applications.

Can you give an example of an application that would have an excessive
number of getemployeBySomeCriteria() methods that doesn't encroach on
becoming a report writer?


A HR application need data about employees in many different ways. RCM
already gave you one example of a very specific criteria for finding
employees. When a company needs to reduce the staff, it would be nice
if the HR application had a feature to find employees eligible for
early retirement, wouldn't it? It is easy to imagine other examples of
very specific ways of finding employees. Lets say we want to send every
manager an email containing the employees having 30-, 40-, 50-year
birthday next month.

Such functions are illegal and would result in prosecution. You really do need to keep up with employment law.

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