Veil Objects to Replace DTOs

Here is a new idea I discovered just a few days ago while working with Codexia, a Ruby web app. I had to fetch data rows from PostgreSQL and return objects to the client. It���s always been a problem for me, how to do that without turning objects into DTOs. Here is the solution I found and gave a name: Veil Objects.

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Let���s say I fetch the list of projects from PostgreSQL:

class Projects def fetch @pgsql.exec('SELECT * FROM project') end end

The...