On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 6:30 PM, Justin Deoliveira <jdeol...@opengeo.org>wrote:
>
>
> On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 8:55 AM, Jody Garnett <jody.garn...@gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> And why not be explicit directly in code? An argument has a name and a
>> type directly... what would the point of storing them in a property file?
>> Only thing i can think of is for i18n purposes.
>>
>>
>> The point is to quickly get gt-main functions back; without going through
>> all of them again. Better then hard coding the information that an argument
>> named "geom" defaults to Geometry.class?
>>
>> I really don't see how something like:
>
> functionName("geom")
>
> is much of a time saver over functionName("geom", Geometry.class)
>
> But sure, i am not against such a utility. My vote would be a static method
> on one of the function base classes.
>
> However mass updating all the functions so that they properly declare
> argument names and types is outside of my scope of work here... my goal for
> now is just to update the api. If people feel that updating all the
> functions is a blocker for this proposal to go through then unfortunately i
> won't be able to see it through as I am already running over the time
> estimated for this task.
>
I did offer to start updating functions in my spare time, my offer still
stands ;-)
Not a blocker from where I stand
Cheers
Andrea
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