I was wondering if instead of passing the Abdera instance around all the
time on the request instance, if we could just inject it into providers
instead. While theoretically we could have a single provider serve
multiple Abdera instances, I don't really think its that likely. People
may do it, but I think the majority of people won't.
If we could do something like Provider.setAbdera(abdera) it would make
access to the Factory quite a bit easier as well. For instance, inside
the CollectionProvider bits I have to do this currently:
@Override
public List<Person> getAuthors(Customer entry, RequestContext request)
throws ResponseContextException {
Person author = request.getAbdera().getFactory().newAuthor();
author.setName("Acme Industries");
return Arrays.asList(author);
}
Now contrast it to what it could be if we had a 1:1 relationship between
an Abdera instance and a Provider/CollectionProvider:
@Override
public List<Person> getAuthors(Customer entry) throws
ResponseContextException {
Person author = getFactory().newAuthor();
author.setName("Acme Industries");
return Arrays.asList(author);
}
It's not life changing, but its cleaner as the RequestContext doesn't
need to be passed to get the authors. It would also make the
AbstractCollectionProvider a fair bit cleaner.
Thoughts?
- Dan
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Dan Diephouse
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