On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 12:46 PM, Kevin Burton <bur...@spinn3r.com> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 9:25 AM, Benjamin Reed <br...@yahoo-inc.com> wrote: > >> This is the behavior we had when we first implemented the API, and in every >> case where people used the information there was a bug. it is virtually >> impossible to use correctly. In general I'm all for giving people rope, but >> if it always results in death, you should stop handing it out. >> > > I think this is excessive rope... > > Most people want to read the data and having a race here is just asking for > trouble. > > I'm not sure it is as much about excessive rope is it is about making it > easy for users to stumble on the correct use case and reduce bugs. > > Ignorance is a wonderful gift you can give to your users :)
Perhaps a compromise would be augment the API, or your wrapper, such that it provides a Future<byte[]> which has more well-known semantics to clients. .. Adam
