Does anyone else also have little alarm bells going off when seeing conversations like this?
Before you'd accomplish this by simply coding the conversion in the factory method. Duplicate code would be factored out to utility classes like Strings etc and it was all pretty straightforward. Now we have a framework to do the same, with TypeConverters and Registries and Builders and Visitors. The gain is that we get the conversion from String to int "for free". (Except that it is not free, the complexity just moved somewhere else, and arguably became bigger.) Also, the builders allow us to name parameters when construction plugin objects in tests. The trade-off is that we have a whole lot more infrastructure. Not only is this more code and more complex than what we had before, but as with any framework, it makes assumptions on how things are done and in what order, and if you need to do something differently then the framework just gets in your way... So now we need to keep modifying the framework to handle these cases. I need to spend more time looking at the code, I'm basing a lot of this on the impression I have after reviewing the commit emails, but I'm really starting to think that the gains don't justify the drawbacks. Sent from my iPhone > On 2014/06/03, at 6:06, Matt Sicker <[email protected]> wrote: > > We need to change the type converter registry to use the existing plugin > registry/manager. That would make this a lot easier! I'll work on that > sometime this week. I've been meaning to get to that (I have a TODO about it > somewhere). > > >> On 2 June 2014 11:15, Gary Gregory <[email protected]> wrote: >> If I want to register my own type converters with >> >> org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.plugins.util.TypeConverters.registerTypeConverter(Class<?>, >> TypeConverter<?>) >> >> when do I call it to make sure the configuration parsing picks up my >> additions before it is to late? >> >> Gary >> >> -- >> E-Mail: [email protected] | [email protected] >> Java Persistence with Hibernate, Second Edition >> JUnit in Action, Second Edition >> Spring Batch in Action >> Blog: http://garygregory.wordpress.com >> Home: http://garygregory.com/ >> Tweet! http://twitter.com/GaryGregory > > > > -- > Matt Sicker <[email protected]>
