reports about antilope

[vincent-peugnet]

Managers should be able to report a validation they find strange or abusive. Especially if they have checked the responsive checkbox.
For example, you're sharing a guitar lesson, an user validate you, but you've never seen her or him... straaannge...

[vincent-peugnet]

Things that can be reported:

• sharable
• validation
• interest
• question
• answer

there could be a parent class report

class Report

id        int
rule      rule_id (int)
comment   text
creation  dateTime
user      user_id (int)

And child classes like ReportSharable

class ReportSharable extends Report

sharable   int

[vincent-peugnet]

Mmmhh,
I'm thinking again of how should Reports be stored.

I wanted to to a ReportReport entity allowing moderators to report a report 😄

But these would need to allow report ReportSharable, ReportInterest, ReportUserProfile.... etc... so I should create a ReportReportSharable !!! That's horrible.

So I'm wondering if, from the begining, I could have done things differently by using a lot of columns that won't be used at the same time.

class Report V2

id         int
rule       rule_id (int)
comment    text
creation   dateTime
user       user_id (int)

sharable   sharable_id (default: NULL)
interest   interest_id (default: NULL)
validation validation_id (default: NULL)

I can manage to only allow one of thoose parameter to be filled.
But of course that would create many empty columns.

But I like the idea of each report sharing the same ID count.

[vincent-peugnet]

As said @n-peugnet , it correspond to problems resolved by Doctrine Inheritance.

Maybe the easiest way could be to use the single table inheritance strategy.