How do you name your Dao method in kotlin? `foo(),...

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[ursus]

How do you name your Dao method in kotlin? foo(), getFoo(), loadFoo(), findFoo() ?

[Matt Rea]

I use getFoo() for in memory access and fetchFoo() for network/database

[Vampire]

Why not make it a property?

[Matt Rea]

Eh you could. Personal preference.

Easier mocking with tests. Also allows you to mutate the value before returning in the getter. You could do that with a property, but feels better in a function, in my opinion

[Vampire]

You can easily have a custom getter for the property and do any mutation you want.

I usually do it like this: "does it return you some value for the class and not take a parameter => property" if it needs parameters or the returned value is just a side-effect or status value and the main purpose for the "thing" is to do something, then method. 🙂

[ursus]

properties are annoying on Daos since they often have parameters, and I dont like mixing props and funcs

fooDao.findById() etc .. so .. find? 🐤 lol

[ursus]

I see Room documentation mixing load and find in the same sample