Re: Child objects inheriting property values

I've done either one of two things in that instance:

1)  Have the value set as a constructor parameter on the Column object.
2)  Have the Record object passed as a constructor parameter and a reference
stored.

It just depends on the design goal and what you want to achieve.

On Nov 20, 2007 4:09 AM, Brady Kelly <[email protected]> wrote:

> I have a hierarchy of objects that share some attributes, e.g. both my
> parent Record and Column objects have a columnDelimiter property.  I want
> this property on the Column object to default to the same property on the
> Record object, until specified on the Column object.  What is the best way
> to go about this?  I could give each Column a reference to the Record it
> belongs to, but this seems not quite right to me.  My other option is to
> have the Record act as a ColumnFactory, setting the columnDelimiter value
> on
> each Column it creates, until a set accessor on Column optionally
> overrides
> that default value.
>
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