Hello again,
Thanks a lot for your VERY helpful insights! However, could you please explain how to
combine my Java functions
with ND Java? I don't understand this and I didn't find any docs explaining this.
Thanks,
Rimma
Joel Parker Henderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>Brendan wrote:
>> The CSpValue cast is unnecessary.
>>...
>> NULL is bad as an application level concept because it has many meanings,
>> like not yet set, not included, unknown, not applicable etc.
>> A static final String called NOT_SPECIFIED_BY_USER would be clear.
>
>Excellent points.
>
>Anyone who uses my bean advice, also do what Brendan says. :-)
>
>> I quite like the bean approach as it hides the communication mechanism, but
>> what object do you want to put the methods in Joel?
>> As they are written they could be static and anywhere.
>
>Yes, like in an external package such as
>
> package com.mycompany.mydepartment.myproject;
> public class MyUtilities { ... }
>
>then imported by the page, applet, or whatever else like this:
>
> import com.mycompany.mydepartment.myproject.MyUtilties;
>
>I use these kinds of external packages for project-wide accessors,
>string constants, utilty functions, etc. Yes, this creates static
>functions, which violates object encapsulation; for me personally,
>this is an acceptable tradeoff because I reuse a lot of code
>among many projects, and CSpider is already static.
>
>Another example would be the followup question about quoting;
>my personal style is to do a utility function like this:
>
> public String upquotes (String s) {
> return "\""+s.toUpperCase().trim()+"\"";
> }
>
> public String getMy (String s) {
> // I use this because I have other ways of storing sessions.
> // Using a wrapper function isolates my other code from CSpider.
> return CSpider.getUserSessionObject(s).toString();
> }
>
> public static final String kSesName = "sesName";
>
>Then in my page.java, I would write:
>
> CSpValue name = new CSpString(MyUtilties.upquotes(getMy(kSesName)));
>
>
>-Joel
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