Hands-On Software Engineering with Python

Data Persistence and BaseDataObject

This chapter will focus exclusively on the development and testing of the BaseDataObject ABC (Abstract Base Class), which we'll need in both the hms_artisan (Artisan Application) and hms_gateway (Artisan Gateway service) component projects. It is possible that the hms_co (Central Office Application) code base will also need to utilize the same functionality. We'll look at that in some depth later, while working through the hms_co code.

At present, we're expecting BaseDataObject to look something like this:

The story that drives the design and implementation of the BaseDataObject that was described earlier ...