True, but "batshit conservatives" won't do that, or will mess themselves if you do that, rather than making some kind of "Object-Whatever-Mapping" model and ann

True, but "batshit conservatives" won't do that, or will mess themselves if you do that, rather than making some kind of "Object-Whatever-Mapping" model and annotations. But that's what I would do (at least in Java) for this kind of transient transfer object, if left to my own devices. https://plus.google.com/110981030061712822816/posts/KaSKeg4vQtz https://plus.google.com/110981030061712822816/posts/KaSKeg4v... (I would put myself in the "moderate liberal" camp, even if the languages Steve Yegge lists for that group are not my choice languages)