Hands-On Software Engineering with Python

Central Office – creating an artisan

The relevant Story for Central Office staff being able to create an Artisan, from the earlier collection of stories is:

• As an Artisan Manager, I need to be able to create Artisan objects so that I can manage artisans

Artisan objects are unusual, in that while they are logically owned by the Artisan that they represent, they are created by the Central Office. This implies that two radically different message formats will be needed by the Central Office code-base: one to create an Artisan and one to update it. If we start with a complete message structure for creation purposes, we can better evaluate whether it presents any risks or complications in the update process later:

def to_message_data(self) -> ...