--- Stefan Bodewig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Fri, 4 Nov 2005, Matt Benson
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > --- Stefan Bodewig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >> On Wed, 2 Nov 2005, Matt Benson
> >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> > --- Stefan Bodewig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >>
> >> >> Hmm, I'd prefer (ab?)using PropertyHelpers for
> this instead of
> >> >> adding new helpers.
> >> >>
> >> >> <copy resource="${resource:url:someurl}"/> or
> >> >> something similar.
> >> >
> >> > Hmm... this appears doable... it will require
> that the properties
> >> > be resolved by IntrospectionHelper instead of
> RuntimeConfigurable
> >> > though, which could require the usual
> backwards-compatibility
> >> > acrobatics.
> >>
> >> Do we really need to resolve that in
> IntrospectionHelper? Why?
> >
> > What's the alternative? setResource(String)
> (after
> > which every implementor has to call resolution
> code)?
>
> I guess I need to re-read the code, its been a long
> time. IIUC you
> think we need to modify IntrospectionHelper so that
> the correct object
> type can be created right there, correct?
>
> OK, I see the problem now. PropertyHelper - or the
> way we use it -
> isn't really suited for property expansions that
> yield something other
> than a String.
>
> It's probably easier to have some kind of
> ResourceFactory that
> returned Resource instances (or subclasses thereof)
> based on Strings
> and explicitly code support for this into
> IntrospectionHelper (much
> like the special cases for boolean or File). Your
> original idea,
> isn't it?
Yeah, basically. :) So if anyone other than myself
and Stefan have been paying attention to this
conversation, does that scare anyone? DD? ;)
-Matt
>
> Stefan
>
>
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