[jira] Commented: (HIVEMIND-11) getConfiguration missing from Registry Interface

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     Author: James Carman
    Created: Fri, 25 Jun 2004 9:54 AM
       Body:
Please let us know what you intend to do.  If you want to remove the method from the interface and try to make people use a service to manage contributions to a configuration, that's cool with me, as it's probably cleaner.  Anyway, I am writing my TSS article now, so it'd be nice to have the code in my article in sync with the current API. :-)  Thanks!
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        Key: HIVEMIND-11
    Summary: getConfiguration missing from Registry Interface
       Type: Bug

     Status: Open
   Priority: Major

    Project: HiveMind
 Components: 
             framework
   Versions:
             1.0

   Assignee: Howard M. Lewis Ship
   Reporter: Achim Hügen

    Created: Fri, 25 Jun 2004 2:02 AM
    Updated: Fri, 25 Jun 2004 9:54 AM

Description:
The getConfiguration method is no longer present in the registry interface but has been moved to RegistryInfrastructure.
That change made dealing with the registry unintuitive, retrieving a configuration requires some good guesswork, especially since the documentation is not uptodate.

Let's have a look how the documentation must change, this reveals some of the difficulties. Current documentation:

Registry registry = . . .;
List elements = registry.getConfiguration("com.myco.MyConfig");	

Simple and clean. Instead we need a reference to RegistryInfrastructure. 
Only solution is a cast:

List elements = ( (RegistryInfrastructure) registry ).getConfiguration("com.myco.MyConfig");	

Besides beeing unintuitive, there is no contract, that ensures that the Registry object additionally implements RegistryInfrastructure!
IMHO, dealing with two different interfaces for the most basic tasks is no good idea.
Howard, you already admitted on the mailing list, that you 'probably have been overly zealous in removing getConfiguration()'
Please restore the method.

Achim Huegen




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