On Mon, 2004-04-12 at 16:35, Carsten Ziegeler wrote:
> Niclas Hedhman wrote:
> >
> > On Saturday 10 April 2004 00:24, Stephen McConnell wrote:
> >
> > > Secondly - concerning dynamic lookup I think we should be following
> > > something closer to the approach suggested by Bruno Dumon - ie.:
> > >
> > > /**
> > > * @avalon.dependency type="Locator" key="locator"
> > > */
> > > public void service( ServiceManager manager )
> > > {
> > > // get the ref widget
> > > Locator locator = (Locator) manager.lookup( "locator" );
> > > Widget redWidget = locator.locate( Widget.class, m_map );
> > > }
> >
> The approach above is imho not better than the current Selector approach;
> it's slightly different so.
> I think you and Stephen are mixing the use of the lookup mechanism
> in Merlin and the interface/functionality provided by the framework.
> The framework api does not/should not know anything about meta info etc.
>
> But it seems noone else apart from me is interested in enhancing
> the framework api, so we can skip this for now.
I'm actually interested in enhancing this mate. A while back I asked
about the use of Class in lookup rather than a String Role:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=avalon-dev&m=105914629325097&w=2
and there were various responses (rightly) pointing out the decisions
behind it. I still tend to favour specifying the component you want by
an interface Class instance, but I follow the reasoning behind using a
String.
With service selector, I sent in an RT a while back about parameterized
lookups which from what I can tell is similar (at a usage level) to the
'locator' above:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=avalon-dev&m=105914503723538&w=2
After getting some really informative responses I agree that
parameterized lookup's aren't a good idea (eg. no type safety passing
arbitrary maps to the container, etc).
It would be great to fix up the service selector dilemma though, as it's
been container specific for ages and ideally should be specified by the
framework api.
I remember when we had the old Avalon 5 emails we looked at having:
Object lookup(String role, Object hint); // I agree hint isn't the best
name
Anyone remember the results of that discussion?
Cheers,
Marcus
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