Oops, ignore my post, I currently have a mixture of fop0.19 and fop0.20.2 round here. Very sorry, Frank
> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: Nestel, Frank [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Gesendet am: Donnerstag, 29. November 2001 13:31 > An: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Betreff: Driver API Suggestion > > Hi, > > as a former (0.19 was running fine) and future user (hope I > get 0.20.2 up again, 0.20.1 was kind of a mess in my environment) > of fop I'd first like to thank for it. Great work! > > Second I have a question on the API of the Driver Object, which > is a bit about aesthetic > > Deep within a XSLT Framework we use, I have code like > > // -1- > Result outResult = obtainResult(mime, status, out); > transformer.setErrorListener(this); > transformer.transform(source, outResult); > // -2- > if ( status.getDriver() != null ) { > status.getDriver().format(); > status.getDriver().render(); > } > > with obtainResult() containing different branches e.g. like this > > Driver driver = new Driver(); > driver.setRenderer(Driver.RENDER_PDF); > driver.setOutputStream(out); > status.setDriver(driver); // <--------------------- -2- > return new SAXResult(driver.getContentHandler()); > > -1- is fairly generic in the sense that different kinds of > sources and different kinds of results can be processed. > > -2- is what I don't like. Actually the status object is the problem > since its main purpose in this sequence is to store additional > information about the Driver object, s.th. which is not needed for > most of the other Result objects used at this point within out > Framework. > > If the the driver.getContentHandler() would return an object which > would automatically start the format() and render() after the > endDocument() has been fired, this would be very convenient in above > use case. > > So I wonder if it would be useful for more people to have s.th. like a > Driver.getContentHandler(boolean autoRender) > method, which eigher returns a normal ContentHandler or one which > automatically formats and renders. Actually I haven't get a usecase > for autoRender = false arround here yet. > > Thanks for your patience and reading till here. > > Frank > > -- > Dr. Frank Sven Nestel > Principal Software Engineer > > COI GmbH Erlanger Straße 62, D-91074 Herzogenaurach > Phone +49 (0) 9132 82 4611 > http://www.coi.de, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > COI - Solutions for Documents > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
