Serdar Tumgoren wrote:
Hi everyone,
I'm working with a database of campaign finance filings, and I'm
trying to create a data structure that captures the fact that:
- there can be multiple races
- races can have multiple candidates
- candidates can have multiple campaign committees
- campa
> Have you considered using classes? This looks like a fairly natural fit for
> race, candidate, committee and maybe report casses
Aha, okay, the multiple classes approach makes sense. But would these
be nested classes, perhaps inheriting attributes from their parent
classes? E.g.:
class Race
"Serdar Tumgoren" wrote
I'm working with a database of campaign finance filings, and I'm
trying to create a data structure that captures the fact that:
- there can be multiple races
- races can have multiple candidates
- candidates can have multiple campaign committees
- campaign committe
Serdar Tumgoren wrote:
And of course, please let me know if there's a simpler approach I'm
overlooking that would meet my requirements.
As always, the advice is appreciated.
You could just create some classes with methods to handle the insertion
and deletion of those data.
You could also keep
Hi everyone,
I'm working with a database of campaign finance filings, and I'm
trying to create a data structure that captures the fact that:
- there can be multiple races
- races can have multiple candidates
- candidates can have multiple campaign committees
- campaign committees can file m
