Re: New release?

[Janne Saarela <Janne.Saarela@sophia.inria.fr>]

Hi Dan

> I like this, but it is not far from what we had before within
> DataSource. Why not instead have these facilities on DataSource itself,
> instead of an associated object InputSource?

No, if the DataSource interface had all these methods, every developer
would need to implement all the methods themselves - an aspect
I will argue against. Why ask them duplicate the work if we can
implement all this basic functionality in a separate class they
can use?

> We might've subclassed it, but better I think to merge into DataSource

Thus, I think an additional class is needed. Do you still think
that given

public interface DataSource
{
  setURI()
  getURI()

  setStream()
  getStream()

  setString()
  getString()

  ...
}

every user of DataSource always has to implement all those methods?

Janne
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