Patrick Wright wrote:
This sounds like a good direction to go in. I think that having the code throughout rely more on lookup methods like getRegistrar() could make certain types of testing easier--don't need to set up the infrastructure for socket-based testing if you can mock or stub the getRegistrar() method, for example.
Indeed, that would be nice. We could also decide that a LookupLocator is nothing more than a specialized URI for finding a Registrar, deprecate all implementation details, and provide a (configurable) factory to all subsystems that need to bootstrap via a known Registrar.
An important question will be how to make any such changes backwards
Indeed! Maybe including a URI based factory will provide us with more room to maneuver.
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