benonymus
Having queries in the schema? Thoughts?
Hey there,
I am currently reading Programming Phoenix 1.4 and it says that the non generic, more complex queries should be in the schemas.
I thought I would like to ask the people what do they think about this, in my previous project I had these in the controller, as the book mentions it too, and even though I was aware that that approach might not be the best, I was stunned by reading that it should be in the schema.
What do you guys think? What are the pros and cons?
Thanks
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blatyo
It’s important to note that the query is not the execution of the query. A query is just a data structure, so putting it in the schema where all the functions are pure is fine. I think it’s the best place to store a shared query between multiple controller actions. I may sometimes choose to write a query in the context however, if there’s no point in sharing it. I try to make the web layer unaware of any database stuff and have it deal only with web concerns and calling context functions.
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