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[flareback]

So I'm working on a program and I'm not sure how I want to have it designed.

 

I have two classes a Person class and a Business class. I want to track those are donating to a cause. So a person can be a donor, but they may not be. And a Business can be a donor but they may not be. It would make sense for donor to extend Person and Business but you can't extend multiple classes.

 

So should I have Person and Business extend donor? But not all people are donors and I usually think of classes that extend as being an "is-a" relationship (Animal class and a Dog class that extends Animal, a Dog is an Animal but not all animals are dogs). So to me this doesn't seem to be ideal.

 

Any thoughts?

[SpeedCrazy]

I don't have a clue about java but it seems to me you could do it this way:

Have a "entity" class(person and business) and as an extension of that have business, person, business-donor and person-donor. or just business and person and person and then extend those further. Not ideal but it could maybe work... as i say i am clueless on java.

Hope that sparks an idea.

[flareback]

I don't have a clue about java but it seems to me you could do it this way:

Have a "entity" class(person and business) and as an extension of that have business, person, business-donor and person-donor. or just business and person and person and then extend those further. Not ideal but it could maybe work... as i say i am clueless on java.

Hope that sparks an idea.

 

I thought about having a business-donor and a person-donor class but the donor parts are going to be very similar. Seems like I would be re-writing a lot of code. Plus if I changed anything I'd have to change it in both places.

[AZNguyen]

It's been awhile since I did Java, but I think....

 

Have both People and Business extends Donor. Then use a flag variable to state whether or not they are a donor. Then just do whatever it is you need to do that is shared within the Donor class. Then everything that's different in People and Business.

[jamesy]

Dude can you reword that in a simpler form ? i do a good but of java think i might have some help here , i might hit you with a question afterwords