DeveloperX,
Thanks for this very thought provoking response.
I should have delved a little deeper into the objects to cast light...
Companies would be a collection of Company objects
Company Deductions, CompanyAccruals and CompanyTaxes contain meta data that
apply to all employees who are assigned these items
There are similarities but they are different enough to warrant seperate
objects I believe. They would contain different methods for calculations
and different properties shortly after dropping below the surface.
With that being said the Employees indeed have employeeDeductions which
would tie to the CompanyDeductions. The employee Deductions would have
rate, percent, pretax etc.
I drafted up a quick model ... using vb .net...sorry about that but I found
if you ask OOP questions in the VB group you dont get any responses)
Is this a bad practice to reference other objects from within an object?
Module Module1
Sub Main()
Dim Company1 As New Company("00000001", "Rons Test Co.", "12-3456789")
Dim Company2 As New Company("00000002", "Bills House of Bugs", "98-3456789")
Company1.AddDeduction("401k", "Company 401k Program")
Company1.AddDeduction("Uniform", "Company Uniforms")
Company1.PrintDeductions()
Company2.PrintDeductions()
Console.ReadLine()
End Sub
End Module
Public Class Company
Private _CompanyID As String
Private _CompanyName As String
Private _FEIN As String
Private _CompanyDeductions As New System.Collections.ArrayList
Public Sub New(ByVal CompanyID As String, ByVal CompanyName As String, ByVal
FEIN As String)
_CompanyID = CompanyID
_CompanyName = CompanyName
_FEIN = FEIN
End Sub
Public Property CompanyID() As String
Get
Return _CompanyID
End Get
Set(ByVal value As String)
_CompanyID = value
End Set
End Property
Public Property CompanyName() As String
Get
Return _CompanyName
End Get
Set(ByVal value As String)
_CompanyName = value
End Set
End Property
Public Property FEIN() As String
Get
Return _FEIN
End Get
Set(ByVal value As String)
_FEIN = value
End Set
End Property
Public Sub AddDeduction(ByVal DeductionID As String, ByVal DeductionName As
String)
Dim cd As CompanyDeduction = New CompanyDeduction(DeductionID,
DeductionName)
_CompanyDeductions.add(cd)
End Sub
Public Sub PrintDeductions()
Console.WriteLine(vbCrLf)
If _CompanyDeductions.Count 0 Then
Dim cd As CompanyDeduction
Console.WriteLine("Deduction ID" & vbTab & "Deduction Name")
Console.WriteLine("---------------------------------------")
For Each cd In _CompanyDeductions
Console.WriteLine(cd.DeductionID & vbTab & cd.DeductionName)
Next
Else
Console.WriteLine("No Deductions exist for this company")
End If
End Sub
End Class
NotInheritable Class CompanyDeduction
Private _DeductionID As String
Private _DeductionName As String
Public Sub New(ByVal DeductionID As String, ByVal DeductionName As String)
_DeductionID = DeductionID
_DeductionName = DeductionName
End Sub
Public Property DeductionID() As String
Get
Return _DeductionID
End Get
Set(ByVal value As String)
_DeductionID = value
End Set
End Property
Public Property DeductionName() As String
Get
Return _DeductionName
End Get
Set(ByVal value As String)
_DeductionName = value
End Set
End Property
End Class
NotInheritable Class CompanyAccrual
Private _AccrualID As String
Private _AccrualName As String
Public Sub New(ByVal AccrualID As String, ByVal AccrualName As String)
_AccrualID = AccrualID
_AccrualName = AccrualName
End Sub
Public Property AccrualID() As String
Get
Return _AccrualID
End Get
Set(ByVal value As String)
_AccrualID = value
End Set
End Property
Public Property AccrualName() As String
Get
Return _AccrualName
End Get
Set(ByVal value As String)
_AccrualName = value
End Set
End Property
End Class
"DeveloperX" <nn*****@operamail.comwrote in message
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This is a bit of a brainstorm, and raises a bunch of questions, so
don't look at it as an attempt at an answer, but some ideas and
thoughts.
It isn't clear from your post whether companies contains company
classes, I'll assume it does, if not just disregard that bit.
So Companies is a collection of company objects, Employees is a
collection of Employee objects.
It also isn't clear whether you want the employee to have deductions as
well as other things (like a name, ss number, etc) I'll assume you do.
If not I think revisiting the names might be in order.
So, An employee has deductions, accruals and taxes as does a company.
When you look at it, those three things are all financial records, so
it might be sensible to have a FinancialTransaction class which you
could derive into accruals/deductions and taxes. It depends on how
different they are, if each is represented as say a description, code
and amount then you can do away with three classes and simply add a
TransactionType to FinancialTransaction.
Is there any difference between an accrual for a company and an
employee (besides the numbers being bigger)? If so, maybe a derive from
FinancialTransaction creating EmployeeFinancialTransaction and
CompanyFinancialTransaction.
Will the company's transactions be driven by the employee transactions?
I.e. will you be adding up all the employee accruals and adding them to
the company's deductions?
So if you have a think about how the objects will interact and whether
the names reflect what the objects do, you will get a better idea I
think.
RSH wrote:
>I am still trying to grasp the use of real world Objects and how to
conceptualize them using a business scenerio.
What I have below is an outline that I am wrestling with trying to figure
out a class structure:\
Top level Objects:
Companies
Employees
Under Companies I have:
CompanyDeductions
CompanyAccruals
CompanyTaxes
Under Employees I have:
EmployeeDeductions
EmployeeAccruals
EmployeeTaxes
Now my question is how should I setup my classes based on that
information
above?
I originally thought about making Company the base Class and Have the
CompanyDeductions,Accruals and Taxes inherit the Company Class, but I'm
not
sure thats the way to go. My other thought then became just having The
Deductions Accruals and Tax information as optional properties under the
company so that the Employees, which belong to companies could inherit
the
company class.
How would you suggest I go about setting up my class structure?
Thanks so much for your help!
Ron
