[SAGA-RG] Java binding: object factories

[Andre Merzky]

Hi Thilo, all, 

I find the session.createXYZ slightly more beautiful, but I
think that both approaches are perfectly fine, and I think
that the second version is actually more consistent...

Cheers, Andre.


Quoting [Thilo Kielmann] (Feb 27 2008):
> 
> All,
> 
> from this week's meeting on the Java language binding, there is one issue
> left over that (to me) sounds like a matter of taste...
> 
> For all object factories, we have two flavors, one with an explicit
> Session parameter, and one with an implicit (default) Session.
> 
> Example:
> 
> with the implicit default Session:
> 
> File file = FileFactory.createFile(....);
> 
> 
> for the explicit Session parameters, there are two proposals:
> 
> (a) have the create* methods in the factory classes, resulting in
>     two create* methods each, with slightly different signature 
>     (Session parameter or not)
> 
> example:
> 
> File file = FileFactory.createFile(session, ....);
> 
> (b) make the Session class also a factory and add all the create*
>     methods there.
> 
> example:
> 
> File file = session.createFile(....);
> 
> 
> None of the people I've asked so far seems to have a strong opinion on
> this. Personally, I have a slight bias towards (a) as it seems to be
> conceptionally simpler. (objects are always created by the factories...)
> Also, that's as it is in the current language binding.
> 
> 
> I hereby suggest that we keep it "as is" unless somebody can convince us
> of the superiority of option (b). (Of course, we will change once convinced ;-)
> 
> 
> 
> Regards,
> 
> 
> Thilo
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