Sorry. I'm only just reading this thread properly. Suppose I want to
build a configuration manually or using a different approach to the
standard XML. How do I add sequences and endpoints if you remove these
methods?

Paul

On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 5:44 PM, Hiranya
Jayathilaka<[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Paul,
>
> On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 6:23 PM, Paul Fremantle <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Folks
>>
>> What impact does this have on user-written extensions to Synapse? Do
>> they need to be rebuilt after this change?
>
> I have deprecated the unused methods for now. I think we should leave it
> that way for the upcoming release. If any custom extensions are using these
> methods they will continue to function and there is no need to rebuild
> anything. However when building code which uses deprecated API methods the
> compiler will generate warnings. So hopefully developers of such custom
> extensions will notice that and update their code to use the recommended API
> methods.
> Then after this release we can permanently get rid of these methods.
> Thanks,
> Hiranya
>>
>>
>> Paul
>>
>> On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 5:16 AM, Hiranya
>> Jayathilaka<[email protected]> wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> > On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 9:35 AM, Ruwan Linton <[email protected]>
>> > wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Hiranya,
>> >>
>> >> Please go ahead with the proposed modifications, the above two methods
>> >> which adds the sequences as a Entry was there to support the cached
>> >> sequence
>> >> entries from the registry but then we removed the sequences and
>> >> endpoints
>> >> map from the Synapse Configuration and decided to use one single map
>> >> which
>> >> is the localEntries map.
>> >>
>> >> So it is safe to remove those or may be we can deprecate them and
>> >> remove
>> >> in the next release since it is a public method.
>> >
>> > +1... Let's deprecate them for the moment.
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> > Hiranya
>> >
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Thanks,
>> >> Ruwan
>> >>
>> >> On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 4:50 PM, Hiranya Jayathilaka
>> >> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>> I believe the first change is almost a trivial one hence doesn't
>> >>> require
>> >>> any confirmation. But the second one (removing of the unused methods)
>> >>> probably needs some insight from the devs.
>> >>>
>> >>> Thanks,
>> >>> Hiranya
>> >>>
>> >>> On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 4:17 PM, Hiranya Jayathilaka
>> >>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Hi Folks,
>> >>>>
>> >>>> When going through the SynapseConfiguration class I noticed some
>> >>>> minor
>> >>>> design issues in the code. For instance some of the add methods in
>> >>>> the class
>> >>>> (eg: addProxyService, addStartup) do not guarantee that adding a new
>> >>>> item
>> >>>> does not overwirte any existing item. Let's take the addProxyService
>> >>>> method
>> >>>> for example.
>> >>>>
>> >>>> public void addProxyService(String name, ProxyService proxy) {
>> >>>>         proxyServices.put(name, proxy);
>> >>>> }
>> >>>>
>> >>>> If we call this method with two ProxyService objects having the same
>> >>>> name the second service object will overwrite the first one. It seems
>> >>>> that
>> >>>> SynapseConfiguration class relies on higher layers to take care of
>> >>>> such
>> >>>> issues. As a result in classes like SynapseXMLConfigurationFactory we
>> >>>> need
>> >>>> to do this.
>> >>>>
>> >>>> if (config.getProxyService(proxy.getName()) != null) {
>> >>>>         handleException("Duplicate proxy service with name : " +
>> >>>> proxy.getName());
>> >>>> }
>> >>>> config.addProxyService(proxy.getName(), proxy);
>> >>>>
>> >>>> IMHO such validation should take place at the lowest level, ie at the
>> >>>> SynapseConfiguration class itself. Higher levels shouldn't have to
>> >>>> dig into
>> >>>> the existing configuration before trying to add a new item. It should
>> >>>> just
>> >>>> add the item and the lower level should perform the necessary
>> >>>> validation and
>> >>>> throw an exception in case of an error.
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Secondly I have acome across some methods that are not used anywhere
>> >>>> in
>> >>>> the code.
>> >>>>
>> >>>> eg:
>> >>>> public void addSequence(String key, Entry entry)
>> >>>> public void addEndpoint(String key, Entry entry)
>> >>>>
>> >>>> I think it's safe to get rid of these methods and simply the API. So
>> >>>> what do you folks think about carrying out the necessary refactoring
>> >>>> operations to fix these design issues? If you all agree I can spend
>> >>>> some
>> >>>> time on this.
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Thanks
>> >>>> --
>> >>>> Hiranya Jayathilaka
>> >>>> Software Engineer;
>> >>>> WSO2 Inc.;  http://wso2.org
>> >>>> E-mail: [email protected];  Mobile: +94 77 633 3491
>> >>>> Blog: http://techfeast-hiranya.blogspot.com
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>> --
>> >>> Hiranya Jayathilaka
>> >>> Software Engineer;
>> >>> WSO2 Inc.;  http://wso2.org
>> >>> E-mail: [email protected];  Mobile: +94 77 633 3491
>> >>> Blog: http://techfeast-hiranya.blogspot.com
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> --
>> >> Ruwan Linton
>> >> Technical Lead & Product Manager; WSO2 ESB; http://wso2.org/esb
>> >> WSO2 Inc.; http://wso2.org
>> >> email: [email protected]; cell: +94 77 341 3097
>> >> blog: http://ruwansblog.blogspot.com
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > --
>> > Hiranya Jayathilaka
>> > Software Engineer;
>> > WSO2 Inc.;  http://wso2.org
>> > E-mail: [email protected];  Mobile: +94 77 633 3491
>> > Blog: http://techfeast-hiranya.blogspot.com
>> >
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Paul Fremantle
>> Co-Founder and CTO, WSO2
>> Apache Synapse PMC Chair
>> OASIS WS-RX TC Co-chair
>>
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>>
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> Hiranya Jayathilaka
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