Monitor.timestamp() could be non-private??

[Graeme Rimmer <gr...@interati.co.uk>]

I've only been using Cocoon for a couple of days and am trying to write my own Producer based on a resource which is neither a File nor a URI.

I was hoping to use the Monitor class to work out if the Document has been updated.  Looking at the source code for it, it appears that I would only have to override timestamp() to return a meaningful timestamp for my resource and the rest would do everything I need.

Unfortunately, timestamp() is private so I can't subclass Monitor in the way I'd want.  Is there a reason I am unaware of that timestamp() was made private??

My apologies if this should have gone to the users forum, given that I tracked down what I wanted to do in the source code, I guessed this was the most appropriate forum for it.

Graeme

Re: Monitor.timestamp() could be non-private??

[Stefano Mazzocchi <st...@apache.org>]

> Graeme Rimmer wrote:
> 
> I've only been using Cocoon for a couple of days and am trying to
> write my own Producer based on a resource which is neither a File nor
> a URI.
> 
> I was hoping to use the Monitor class to work out if the Document has
> been updated.  Looking at the source code for it, it appears that I
> would only have to override timestamp() to return a meaningful
> timestamp for my resource and the rest would do everything I need.
> 
> Unfortunately, timestamp() is private so I can't subclass Monitor in
> the way I'd want.  Is there a reason I am unaware of that timestamp()
> was made private??
> 
> My apologies if this should have gone to the users forum, given that I
> tracked down what I wanted to do in the source code, I guessed this
> was the most appropriate forum for it.
> 
> Graeme

Probably I didn't think it was useful outside Cocoon internals... but if
you believe so, I don't have problems in making it public.

Anyone else?

-- 
Stefano Mazzocchi      One must still have chaos in oneself to be
                          able to give birth to a dancing star.
<st...@apache.org>                             Friedrich Nietzsche
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