Kees Jongenburger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday 30 January 2003 11:36 am, Michiel Meeuwissen wrote: > > Michiel Meeuwissen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I suggest to deprecate this function immediately (also in 1.6) and > > > make a new one isInstanceOf(String builder) (or even > > > isInstanceOf(MMObjectBuilder builder?), or both) with the inverse > > > behavior. > > > > Perhaps it should even be named 'isExtensionOf' because MMObjectNodes > > are the equivalents of class instances, not MMObjectBuilders. > > What does the instanceof realy mean? > if I create a new news type that contains one image > <builder name="ImageNews" extends="news"> > <classfile>Images</classfile> > <field type='BYTE" name="handle"/> > ..... > </builder> > > the MyNews builder extends news so is instanceof news? > the MyNews builder extends the Images class and so is instanceof images?
In this case the imagenews builder is an extension of the news builder, as stated in the builder-xml. The java keyword 'instanceof' can be used to check the implementation of the builder-class, it the need for this should arise. Michiel -- mihxil' Michiel Meeuwissen Mediapark C101 Hilversum +31 (0)35 6772979 []()
