Anyone used Parsley MVC? I'm a bit confused by it. There's the standard MVC FrontController class, which exposes a method dispatchEvent() for app-wide notifications. It also has a concept of interceptors which is nice... so far so good.
BUT... that dispatchEvent() call executes *synchronously*. Control won't return to your code until *every single listener* to that event finishes executing!! In a single-threaded environment like Flash Player, I would have thought this to be a disastrous design decision... can anyone shed any light on this, as I'm sure there's something I'm missing here! TIA, +J PS another thing I haven't figured out yet is how to inject dependencies into a View component... it seems Parsley can only inject into objects that have been created in the Parsley config file ... and because View components are instantiated by the Flex framework, from what I can tell Parsley has no way to reference them... this has the unpleasant side-effect of requiring all my View code to access the FrontController directly through the FrontController.root static property. In fact, the FrontController class is bugging me -- it is a concrete class with no abstract interface I can code to. It's making me nervous about lock-in to the Parsley framework. Kinda goes against the whole IoC thing, no? PPS And yeah, I will post this to the Parsley forums, but I want the esteemed opinion of those on this list too!
