Exercise: Creating the Address Class

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Now let’s enrich the contact application to include an address for each contact. As an exercise, create the application's Address class using the Studio New Caché Class Definition wizard:

The classname is Address.
It belongs to the ContactDB package.
Its ClassType is Serial—Note that this differs from Contact, which has ClassType Persistent.
In addition to extending %SerialObject, it extends %Populate, %XML.Adaptor, and %ZEN.DataModel.Adaptor.

Address should contain the following properties:

Property Name	Type
Street	%String
City	%String
State	%String
Zip	%String

After creating the class definition, click Build–>Compile to compile the class. Then complete the following steps:

Add a Home property of type ContactDB.Address to Contact. The property declaration looks like this

Property Home As ContactDB.Address;

Use Terminal to delete all of the existing Contact instances. Use the following command:
```
USER>Do ##class(ContactDB.Contact).%KillExtent()
```
Use Terminal to re-populate Contact with contacts that also have address data. Use the following command. Note that the population utility will automatically assign address data to the new contacts.
```
USER>Do ##class(ContactDB.Contact).Populate(10)
```