On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 3:25 PM, Rickard Öberg <[email protected]> wrote:
> Niclas Hedhman wrote:
>> yes, better than what I just suggested.
>>
>> But, why would it be <T extends ValueComposite>, since we don't have
>> that restriction elsewhere? Same algorithm could be applied.
>
> Yes, we could, but I think one will be dealing with ValueComposite types
> more explicitly than with Entity/Composite types. We could relax it
> though, without any problem. Can you give an example where you'd want to
> refer to the type with an extended interface rather than the value type?
> If even one example, then I'm all for it.

Well, we have a general guideline to separate the structural assembly
(i.e. the composite) from the type used by clients. If this applies
"in general", why wouldn't it apply to Values?


>> Now, question is how we handle this along a timeline;
>>  0.6 --> I wanted that out soonish.
>>  Better Value support --> in this release or 0.7??
>
> I'll try to push this through ASAP, because I neeeeeds it for StreamFlow
> UI.

Excellent. Nothing like something really bad rash...

> Without it it seems reeeeally painful to do editing UI's. How do
> people do it without helpers like this???! Seems like a lot of manual
> work...

Yes, it IS!! And one reason why people feel Web UIs are 'easier'.


Cheers
Niclas
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