On Feb 15, 2008, at 10:43 AM, Akins, Brian wrote:
On 2/15/08 8:13 AM, "Plüm, Rüdiger, VF-Group" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
wrote:
Any specific reason why we need to add an hook here and why this
cannot be
done by the existing provider (interface). I am scared of adding
another
level of indirection here if it is not really needed and things can
be already
done with the existing infrastructure.
I like hooks bcs providers are "one-shot." I use both, but find my
self
using hooks more and more.
A good example is the discussion around having stacked providers in
mod_cache. If it were a hook, you'd already have that...
Providers are good when you will have one, and only one, "thing"
that needs
to munge/manipulate/compute like database stuff. With the proxy
stuff, it
looks like we want "n" things to be able to manipulate the data.
Once you
make the leap from 1 to 2, might as well make it a hook.
Not quite... there's nothing in providers, per se, that limit
how they are *used* to be oneshot... Just ask Brad and aaa :)
