Robert Burrell Donkin (JIRA) ha scritto: > [API Design] Reconsider MailAddress > ----------------------------------- > > Key: MAILET-9 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAILET-9 > Project: Mailet API > Issue Type: Task > Reporter: Robert Burrell Donkin > > > MailAddress represents an internet mail address. It is a concrete class > including good, standards compliant code for parsing addresses. The strength > of this design is that it enforces standards. This is also the weakness of > the design. Occasionally, a looser algorithm capable of dealing with > non-RFC822 mail would be preferable. > > Consider factoring as a logical interface (implemented as either an empty > abstract class - my preference - or an Interface) capable of alternative > implementations. The current class would become StandardMailAddress. Consider > adding a marker flag for those addresses which are not RFC822 compliant.
This is a delicate issue. I've not a clear opinion on the best approach. My doubt is: where are the lines delimiting the email address space in the string space defined from "a random string" to a "fully valid rfc email address"? Should these strings be representable by a MailAddress: [EMAIL PROTECTED] a ! a@ @b @@ [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] <empty string> [EMAIL PROTECTED] Stefano
