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MVC Design Question

On a MVC 2 website what I want to do is get a list of products / CategoryId. From that list, create a list of distinct CategoryId's. Then randomly pick a categoryId from the second list and use it to get all the products for that categoryId. I then want to store that CategoryId so that I don't display those products on the next run.

I don't need any code examples to start. What I'm wondering is that I think I would put this code in a class in my model (Dll) and store the list of displayed CategoryId's in session. Is this a good solution or should I go another way?

Thank you for you help

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This could all belong to your Product model, using methods like getAllProductsByCategoryId(id) and maybe use a Category model to do the reverse.

dhdean  2010-04-23 02:44:03
So would it be okay to store the list of displayed categoryId's in session?
 2010-04-23 02:49:22
Sessions should be okay.
Tilo Mitra  2010-04-23 03:23:48
First of, thanks dhdean and Tilo for your answers. I have one more question. In my domain model (dll) I have and IQueryable<T> function where I would be putting this code. How do I either pass a Session var into this function or use the HttpSessionStateWrapper or Base to get and store Session data? Thanks again
 2010-04-24 03:33:25

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