On 2008-11-14, Bruce Atherton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I haven't taken a look at the the code so this is off the cuff, but > couldn't you use a boolean field for each of the interfaces on the > Resource class to indicate whether it is supported?
That was my first approach. > Then have any methods that implement that interface check the > boolean flag to see whether to proxy the request to the decorated > resource or to throw an exception. In code which needs to determine > the abilities of any resource, it can call an is() method rather > than using instanceof. That's the big point, I'd need to modify a lot of tasks. Maybe I still should use that approach for Appendable and Touchable as those are pretty rarely used and stick to a single sub-class that implements FileProvider which may even be used by third-party tasks. Stefan --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
