On 29 Jan 2003, Martin Holz wrote: > Stephan Michels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Hi, > > > > I want to ask for the status of TraversableSource interface. Is this > > proposal now final? > > > > There were some questions open, I think? > > > > Now we have three kinds of returning an information of child sources: > > > > Collection getChildrenURIs() throws SourceException; > > > > Collection getChildrenSources() throws SourceException; > > > > Collection getChildrenNames() throws SourceException; > > > > Do we really need these 3 methods? Couldn't we simplify these methods > > to one method? > > What does name mean in this context? The uri is the "name" of a Source. > > For a webdav source I would expect getName() to return > the value of the DAV:displayname property. You can't calculate > a uri from this. So you need really getChildrenURIs to create a directory > listing. Must a TraversableSource always have a hierarchical URI space?
Agreed. Sometimes you have a linear space like bla://1 bla://2 bla://3 and 3,2 are childs of 1. So in these cases getName() is equal to getURI(). > > > Another question, can we rename > > boolean isDirectory(); > > to > > boolean isCollection(); > > > > This will be more coherent to > > Collection getChildrenSources() > > A TraversableSource is not a > java.util.Collection. > isCollection could cause confusion here. But returns a collection of sources :-/ Stephan Michels. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
