Re: [mv] Chaining together OrderProfiles?

[Mike Heins <mikeh@minivend.com>]

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Quoting cfm@maine.com (cfm@maine.com):
> > Quoting cfm@maine.com (cfm@maine.com):
> > > Has anyone ever done any work to chain together OrderProfiles?
> > > 
> > > Rather than calling profile:
> > >  a for part a
> > >  b for part b
> > >  c for part c (where c is just sum of a and b)
> > > 
> > > I'd rather call profile:
> > >  a for part a
> > >  b for part b
> > >  a+b for part c (where c is just sum of a and b)
> > > 
> > 
> 
> I'm satisfied with failing on the first bump.
> 
> suppose it's something like
>   valid_date_profile
>   valid_payment_profile
>   valid_account_profile
> 
> and it dies on valid_date_profile
> then user corrects it
> and it dies on valid_payment_profile
> and user corrects it
> and his account_profile was ok so it goes.
> 
> Anything else makes it really hard to just add them together independantly
> and arbitrarily.  That's **my** primary goal for code management purposes.
> 
> I'd not thought about the final issue.  This particular implementation still
> goes to final page for one last look.  I'd think the simplest would be
> "last one rules" wrt any "set"; that would seem the "expected" behaviour.
> 

But I don't like the idea of not telling the user all the errors at once
myself. 

I will do some thinking on this one. If anyone has some suggestions for
how the flow might make sense, I am all ears. 8-)

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