Easy Loading

Hi!

I would like to know whether it is good practice to use the Service Layer within the Entity Layer. I have a complex object having properties containing values based on calculations performed on subobjects. If the object was fetched using Deep Load, then it is not a problem to perform the calculations. However, if a simple getByObjectID was done to load the object, then the subobjects have to ne fetched before the calculations can be done. This is like doing Easy Loading. How can a complex Entity (meaning an Entity with children Entities), "realizing" that it is not fully loaded, load the missing parts of itself?

Cheers!

JF
 

velum,

Wouldn't it be as simple as getting your object by its' EntityId and then performing the DeepLoad on it:

Person entity =  getByPersonID(1)

DeepLoad(entity) 

 Or something i missed from your question?
 

velum:

Hi!

I would like to know whether it is good practice to use the Service Layer within the Entity Layer. I have a complex object having properties containing values based on calculations performed on subobjects. If the object was fetched using Deep Load, then it is not a problem to perform the calculations. However, if a simple getByObjectID was done to load the object, then the subobjects have to ne fetched before the calculations can be done. This is like doing Easy Loading. How can a complex Entity (meaning an Entity with children Entities), "realizing" that it is not fully loaded, load the missing parts of itself?

Cheers!

JF