Hi Monks!

I have a question which might be considered a "stylistic" issue but i thought i would get some insight.

Essentially i have a class which requires some configuration (read an XML file to decide how to handle incoming data)

Lots of objects are then created of that class using a data structure which can be fairly arbitrary

So basically, i'm musing over the problem of seperating the incoming data with configuration options. Something like

my $obj=class->new({config_file => "file.xml", data => \%some_yummy_da
+ta});

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Which doesn't seem very elegant to me. So i was thinking of handling it slightly differently:

my $factory=class->new({config_file => "file.xml"});
my $obj=$factory->give_me_my_object(\%data);

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But then THAT seems weird since its essentially a factory returning objects of it's own class. And on top of that, it raises questions like what would happen if i tried to access "factory only" methods through the produced objects etc.

Any thoughts? Am i over complicating this?

Thanks as always for any help!

In reply to Using a factory class to return objects of the same class by Amblikai

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