[thewarrior]

How would you design something like :

Person --> Full Time Employee --> Manager

Person --> Contract Employee

Without inheritance assuming that salary calculation is the only thing which differentiates them.

[derefr]

Something like...

   Person HAS A IEmploymentRelationship
   ContractEmployment IMPLEMENTS IEmploymentRelationship
   FullTimeEmployment IMPLEMENTS IEmploymentRelationship
   FullTimeEmployment HAS A IDirectReport
   Manager HAS A Person
   Manager IMPLEMENTS IDirectReport

And then salary() is a polymorphic function declared by the IEmploymentRelationship interface, where FullTimeEmployment instances use the manager somehow, and ContractEmployment doesn't.

You can even put some sugar on that by having a salary() function on Person that calls the salary() function on its IEmploymentRelationship—but I wouldn't, for the same reason I wouldn't denormalize a relational database.

[thewarrior]

Got it. Thank you.