+1 On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 11:18 AM, Vincent Massol <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi devs, > > In another thread we had a discussion about the new name of the method for > looking up components. We had to provide a new one since we introduced > support for Types in http://jira.xwiki.org/jira/browse/XCOMMONS-121 > > Thomas has introduced a new lookupComponent() method and has asked in a mail > to speak up if we wanted a different name. I have replied to this thread and > explained why I preferred a new one (see > http://markmail.org/message/lvah3d6f37ak66p3). > > I'm copying my rationale here: > > " > All looks good except CM.lookupComponent() which Ï don't like a lot for the > following reasons: > * It's a bit long. It's longer than before and it would be nicer if it were > as short as before or even shorter ;) > * It's not symmetrical with other lookups like lookupList and lookupMap, > which should theoretically be lookupComponentList() and lookupComponentMap() > which are even longer > " > > I've proposed several possibilities and some committers have expressed their > preferences for getInstance*() so I'm officially proposing it here as a VOTE > since it's an important API that we're going to keep for a long time ;) > > So this vote is about using: > > * CM.getInstance(…) > * CM.getInstanceList(…) > * CM.getInstanceMap(…) > > Rationale: > * Shorter than lookupComponent, LookupComponentList, LookupComponentMap > * This is what is used in Guice and Picocontainer and seems to be a > well-known name > > Here's my +1 > > IMPORTANT: Please vote quickly since we need to agree before the release of > 4.0 final and 4.0RC1 is planned for this coming Monday so it would be ideal > to speed up this vote and do the change today if we agree about it. > > Thanks > -Vincent > _______________________________________________ > devs mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
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