With Sling Models, do we still need the SLING-2938 Adapter methods?

[Bertrand Delacretaz]

Hi,

See SLING-2938 for the history and prototypes of simplified adapters,
example below.

Do we still need this with Sling Models?
I'd say both things are orthogonal, but I haven't worked with models
so far, so I'd like a second opinion - let's not introduce too many
different ways of doing the same thing.

-Bertrand


Example adapter, defined by the (controversial) AdapterProvider
interface, and @Adapter annotations:

public static class MultipleMethodsProvider implements AdapterProvider {

        @Adapter
        public Integer adaptToInt(TestAdaptable src) {
            return new Integer((int)src.value);
        }

        @Adapter
        public URL adaptToURL(TestAdaptable src) {
            final String url = "http://example.com/"; + src.value;
            try {
                return new URL(url);
            } catch(MalformedURLException mfu) {
                throw new RuntimeException("Invalid URL " + url, mfu);
            }
        }
    }