Is there a(n easy) way to avoid this scenario ?

Yes - don't design your application in a way that sucks.

You're thinking as a DBA / programmer, not as a systems analyst. Think about how your application is going to be used. CGI::Application (and similar frameworks) provide user-level mapping to business-level concepts. I had an application that would CRUD over 40 tables. But, because there were only 7 different screens (with options), I had 7 runmodes. Now, based on those options, different things would happen.

Here's another way to look at it - to run reports, I need 2 runmodes - PickReport() and RunReport(). However, I will probably want:

In total, I think we ended up with some 250 files supporting 70 reports. Still only 2 runmodes, though ...

The Perfect is the Enemy of the Good.

In reply to Re: avoiding excessive number of methods in CGI::Application and DBI modules by dragonchild
in thread avoiding excessive number of methods in CGI::Application and DBI modules by aroc725

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