Rather than removing registry.api, start cleaning it up & use it. In 2010,
we introduced registry.api & user-api, with a view to getting all future
code to properly use those APIs, and stop using interfaces from
registry.core & user.core.

I am -1 on removing this

Azeez


On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 6:07 PM, Eranda Sooriyabandara <[email protected]>wrote:

> Hi All,
> Interfaces and classes in org.wso2.carbon.registry.api.* are almost all
> duplicated [1] in org.wso2.carbon.registry.core.*. It's been very confusing
> to have same interface in two place where both of those interfaces used for
> the same purpose. Most of the time we used org.wso2.carbon.registry.core.*
> for in our code as well as client codes where we only updated
> org.wso2.carbon.registry.core.* for the new methods.  I did some
> feasibility study of removing org.wso2.carbon.registry.api.* and seems it's
> ok for me to remove that if we don't have any specific reason to remove it.
>
> Or
>
> We can move the interfaces and abstract classes to
> the org.wso2.carbon.registry.api.*. But the work load will be much higher.
>
> Comments and thoughts are welcome.
>
> thanks
> Eranda
>
> [1]. Comparison of org.wso2.carbon.registry.api.* to
> org.wso2.carbon.registry.core.*
>
> org.wso2.carbon.registry.core.LogEntry extends
> org.wso2.carbon.registry.api.Activity
> org.wso2.carbon.registry.api.Activity only used in
> org.wso2.carbon.registry.core.LogEntry
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> org.wso2.carbon.registry.core.Association extends
> org.wso2.carbon.registry.api.Association
> org.wso2.carbon.registry.api.Association only used in
> org.wso2.carbon.registry.core.Association
> This class only has the super construct call
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> <<interface>>org.wso2.carbon.registry.core.Collection extends
> <<interface>>org.wso2.carbon.registry.api.Collection
> org.wso2.carbon.registry.api.Collection only used in
> org.wso2.carbon.registry.core.Collection
> All org.wso2.carbon.registry.api.Collection methods are overridden
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> org.wso2.carbon.registry.core.Comment implements
> org.wso2.carbon.registry.api.Comment
> Need to move this to org.wso2.carbon.registry.core and rename the existing
> implementation to CommentImpl
>
> org.wso2.carbon.registry.api.CoreRegistry extends
> org.wso2.carbon.registry.core.CoreRegistry
> both are same interface
> org.wso2.carbon.registry.api.CoreRegistry only used in
> org.wso2.carbon.registry.core.CoreRegistry
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> org.wso2.carbon.registry.api.GhostResource<T> only appears in
> org.wso2.carbon.registry.api
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
> org.wso2.carbon.registry.core.Registry extends
> org.wso2.carbon.registry.api.Registry
>
>  org.wso2.carbon.registry.core.Registry extended methods
>
>  boolean addAspect(String name, Aspect aspect)
>  LogEntryCollection getLogCollection(String resourcePath, int action,
> String userName, Date from, Date to, boolean recentFirst)
>  RegistryContext getRegistryContext()
>  void invokeAspect(String resourcePath, String aspectName, String action,
> Map<String,String> parameters)
>  boolean removeAspect(String aspect)
>  boolean removeVersionHistory(String path, long snapshotId)
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
>  org.wso2.carbon.registry.api.RegistryException extends
> org.wso2.carbon.registry.core.RegistryException
>  both are same the same
>
>  ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>  org.wso2.carbon.registry.core.RegistryService extends
> org.wso2.carbon.registry.api.RegistryService
>  org.wso2.carbon.registry.api.RegistryService  used in
> RegistryCoreServiceComponent to register the RegistryService
>  org.wso2.carbon.registry.core.RegistryService uses UserRegistry instead
> of Registry as in org.wso2.carbon.registry.api.RegistryService
>
>  org.wso2.carbon.registry.core.RegistryService extended methods
>  org.wso2.carbon.user.core.UserRealm getUserRealm(int tenantId)
>
>  Remove deprecated in org.wso2.carbon.registry.core.RegistryService
>
>  UserRegistry getSystemRegistry() --- Deprecated.
>  UserRegistry getSystemRegistry(int tenantId) --- Deprecated.
>  UserRegistry getSystemRegistry(int tenantId, String chroot) ---
> Deprecated.
>  UserRegistry getUserRegistry() --- Deprecated.
>  UserRegistry getUserRegistry(String userName) --- Deprecated.
>  UserRegistry getUserRegistry(String userName, int tenantId) ---
> Deprecated.
>  UserRegistry getUserRegistry(String userName, int tenantId, String
> chroot) --- Deprecated.
>  UserRegistry getUserRegistry(String userName, String password) ---
> Deprecated.
>  UserRegistry getUserRegistry(String userName, String password, int
> tenantId) ---  Deprecated.
>  UserRegistry getUserRegistry(String userName, String password, int
> tenantId, String chroot) --- Deprecated.
>
>  ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>  <<interface>>org.wso2.carbon.registry.core.Resource extends
> <<interface>>org.wso2.carbon.registry.api.Resource
>  both the interfaces are the same
>  Has lot of usages of org.wso2.carbon.registry.api.Resource in
> org.wso2.carbon.registry.core
>
>  ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>  org.wso2.carbon.registry.core.Tag extends org.wso2.carbon.registry.api.Tag
>  org.wso2.carbon.registry.core.Tag override the method  'public void
> setTagCount(long tagCount)'
>  org.wso2.carbon.registry.api.Tag only used in
> org.wso2.carbon.registry.core.Tag and
> org.wso2.carbon.registry.core.TaggedResourcePath but not used 'setTagCount'
> method.
>
>  ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>  org.wso2.carbon.registry.core.TaggedResourcePath extends
> org.wso2.carbon.registry.api.TaggedResourcePath
>  org.wso2.carbon.registry.api.TaggedResourcePath Only used in
> org.wso2.carbon.registry.core.TaggedResourcePath
>
> --
>
> *Eranda Sooriyabandara *Senior Software Engineer;
> Integration Technologies Team;
> WSO2 Inc.; http://wso2.com
> Lean . Enterprise . Middleware
>
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