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Bureaucratic forms have a tendency to change unpredictably. Today they want weight in kilograms, tomorrow they'll want it in grams, and the day after that in st
by scaladev 6y ago
Bureaucratic forms have a tendency to change unpredictably. Today they want weight in kilograms, tomorrow they'll want it in grams, and the day after that in standardized intergalactic weight units. I get what you're saying (and I don't like writing unnecessary mapping boilerplate too), but there should be a middle layer to protect the application from craziness like that.
- magicalhippo 6y agoThankfully things in our sector is fairly static in that regard, so this is seldom an issue. That sounds quite horrible indeed. And yes, a fatter middle layer would be nice. Our next generation software will probably have more of that, this code base is over 20 years old at this point...