On Sun, 2006-05-21 at 17:01 +0200, Roland Weber wrote: > Hi Oleg, > > >>What is the advantage of an extra interface over a flag attribute > >>as was used in HttpClient? > > > > It does not pollute the interface of the base class. > > But it requires two implementation classes. > > > To me this is > > certainly an advantage but I can have it either way > > I also can have it either way. Let's leave it as it is > until others share their views with us. > > > GeneratedHeader is merely a marker subclass of the Header class. This > > still does not preclude us from using request wrappers or any other > > techniques to deal with automatically generated headers. > > Yes, but we'd have two ways to do the same thing then. > Anyway, that's a different story.
Actually, we already have two APIs: HttpCore and HttpClient. One geared towards efficiency and flexibility while another one geared more toward feature richness and simplicity. Sometimes that means doing the same things two ways Oleg > > cheers, > Roland > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
