Carlton GibsonHow I approach decoupling business logic from the Django ORM.
https://buttondown.com/carlton/archive/decoupling-your-business-logic-from-the-django-orm/ #django #TheStackReport
Tin Tvrtković@carlton I thought this was a nicely nuanced and thoughtful article before even seeing the first attrs class, let alone cattrs ;)
@carlton disregarding specific libraries, there's definitely a rich discussion to be had around application architecture and complexity management here, and I think your entry here adds to it thoughtfully. I personally fall into the camp where I'll happily put the business logic meat into the "view", eschewing a service layer until the codepath needs to be shared. I have folks at $DAYJOB arguing otherwise, and not without merit.
@tintvrtkovic Ooh, good. Spicy 🌶️
I have OPINIONS about keep views bare... so I tend to have logic live in forms[*] — but people hate that too 😜
Glad you liked it. That you liked it before the cattrs reveal is extra nice, but you know I've been using it. (We can finally carry on our conversation: will you be in Bologna?)
[*]: It sounds crazy but is remarkably clean, I promise.
@carlton baby is still too demanding for conferences I'm afraid. Will have to wait until next year. Hynek is also pressuring me to get back out there 😇
@tintvrtkovic Take your time! The child grows too quickly. Meanwhile the conferences aren't going anywhere.
@carlton the argument goes that refactoring into a more abstract service layer on-demand runs into the risk of it being done inexpertly and inconsistently. Which I understand.
I guess, like many things in software engineering, the right call here depends on the people involved and not the technical arguments one way or another
Hynek Schlawack@tintvrtkovic @carlton you’re going to hell for your singleton dependency module anyway so why not lean into it
