Hi Egon, I think the readers were named so because they all read certain forms of data. I would find it quite confusing if I looked for a way to read my molecule files and wouldn't find any readers in the IO package. Also the CDK naming convention "Reader" is coherent with the Java IO naming convention.
Best wishes, Andreas Egon Willighagen wrote: > Hi all, > > I would like comments on the following proposal: > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Rename the *Reader IO classes to *Extractor > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > The reason is that most of our 'Reader's actually do not read the full > format, > but just a subsection of it. Many readers to lists what the do and do not > read, but 'extractor' might make more clear that we indeed only extract bits > from those files. > > The goal is really to have a reader, with support for the full format, but > that is, unfortunately, not reality for many extractors we have. I think only > XYZReader is really a Reader. > > Would this rename make things more clear? > > Egon > -- PhD student in the research group of Prof. Dr. Gisbert Schneider Institute for Organic Chemistry and Chemical Biology Chair for Chemo- and Bioinformatics Beilstein-endowed Chair for Chemoinformatics Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Siesmayerstr. 70 60323 Frankfurt am Main Germany Tel.: +49-69-798-24879 Fax: +49-69-798-24880 http://www.modlab.de/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Cdk-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/cdk-user
