I would say that adding UTF8 to the method names implies that the framework expects UTF8, if that's true, that's a good method name.
If you want to support other encodings then a method name which takes a char* and an encoding would be better, still including a UTF8 version which just calls the char*+encoding version with a fixed UTF8 encoding. I would say that in this encoding-enlightened day and age +(XX)xxWithName:(char*)name; is lacking. If that name is meant to be UTF-8, say so, it's a few extra characters. On 3 Mar, 2014, at 10:37 pm, jonat...@mugginsoft.com wrote: > I am pondering the following framework public API method signatures. > > The API requires a mixture of const char* and NSString * parameters. > > The question is whether to precede const char * parameter names with UTF8 > e.g.: > > + (MonoClass *)monoClassWithName:(char *)className fromAssemblyName:(const > char *)assemblyName; > > becomes > > + (MonoClass *)monoClassWithUTF8Name:(char *)className > fromAssemblyUTF8Name:(const char *)assemblyName; > > I have doubts in case that NSString * convenience variants become desirable > in the future. > > Just wondering how others have approached this. > > === > > + (MonoClass *)monoClassWithName:(char *)className fromAssemblyName:(const > char *)assemblyName; > - (MonoClass *)monoClassWithName:(char *)className fromAssemblyName:(const > char *)name; > + (MonoClass *)monoClassWithName:(char *)className fromAssembly:(MonoAssembly > *)assembly; > + (MonoClass *)corlibMonoClassWithName:(char *)className; > > + (MonoClass *)dubrovnikMonoClassWithName:(char *)className; > + (MonoMethod *)dubrovnikMonoMethodWithName:(char *)methodName > className:(char *)className argCount:(int)argCount; > > - (MonoAssembly *)loadedAssemblyWithName:(const char *)name; > - (MonoAssembly *)loadedAssembly:(NSString *)name; > > - (MonoAssembly *)openAssemblyWithName:(const char *)name; > - (MonoAssembly *)openAssemblyWithPath:(NSString *)assemblyPath; > - (MonoAssembly *)openAssembly:(NSString *)name path:(NSString *)assemblyPath; > - (MonoAssembly *)openAssemblyWithName:(const char *)name path:(NSString > *)path; > > Jonathan > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) > > Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. > Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com > > Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: > https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/rols%40rols.org > > This email sent to r...@rols.org _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
