--- On Wed, 2/25/09, Stefan Bodewig <bode...@apache.org> wrote:
> From: Stefan Bodewig <bode...@apache.org>
> Subject: Re: explicitly specified archive input
> To: dev@ant.apache.org
> Date: Wednesday, February 25, 2009, 7:52 AM
> On 2009-02-24, Matt Benson <gudnabr...@yahoo.com>
> wrote:
>
> > I'm thinking maybe what we need here [1] is a way to
> wrap arbitrary
> > resource collections with archival information, like
> extracting the
> > archive attribute getters of ArchiveFileSet to an
> > ArchivalResourceCollection interface, implemented by
> ArchiveFileSet
> > as well as sugg. ArchivalResources which would take
> any embedded
> > Resource(s)... then filelists or explicit <file>
> resources could be
> > used (these should fail if missing I think).
>
> That's what I hinted at with my comment about filelists (I
> thought
> filelists would fail if missing as well). So yes, the
> bigger problem
> for the more strict collections is/was that you loose
> information.
>
> > Then to create archives, archival tasks would look not
> for
> > ArchiveFileSet per se but ArchivalResourceCollection
> or ArchiveInput
> > or whatever we want to call it. What holes have
> I missed in this
> > approach?
>
> If you want to use that approach (and I don't think you are
> miissing
> anything), please don't use instanceof checks but rather
> the
> Resource.as method I introduced when I extraced the mapping
> logic -
> that way one can write decorators for new interfaces
> without having to
> implement all the other interafaces as well.
>
Don't worry--I remembered that much. :) And I suppose you're bowing out of
the interface naming process per usual? ;)
-Matt
> Stefan
>
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