Where to put data read from file.

[vivek poddar]

Hi,

I am trying a toy project to generate random quotes, to get up and running I am thinking to have a set of quotes in a json file later on it may be anything from DB to network. I don't to get into details hence I am thinking to have a repository object that would handle all the incoming and outgoing data.

That said, for now the repository would be responsible to read the JSON file and hand it over to its client.

Is this a good strategy so far?

PS: I am using GSON to read the JSON file.

[vivek poddar]

One thing I forgot :p where to put that JSON file?

[Stefan Bradl]

Yeah, that is exactly what a repository/gateway is for. Later on you just swap it out for your real DB gateway.

As for the framework (GSON): Frameworks should be kept at arms length. So it could be a good idea to define an interface for reading json files and write an GSON-Adapter which implements it. But that is not a must have. It may just be a good idea because you have no influence on the development of 3rd-party frameworks and so you should be able to change to other frameworks if needed.

[vivek poddar]

PFA, github link for more reference.

https://github.com/aryehof/quote-service/tree/read-quote-json

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