Hi, Dianne - thanks for the encouraging words! I've seen dump() getting used for the debugging purpose you mentioned. I'll certainly mention it in the upcoming draft. That said, I also see a use that I have mentioned; after all, it is declared pure virtual and so we may as well want our components to serialize themselves to a stream when required. This will fit into the scheme I was mentioning in the document - services that pool objects if they are not pinged for a period of time.
thanks anyway. I'll keep working in my spare time! On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 2:28 AM, Dianne Hackborn<hack...@android.com> wrote: > Hi, nice job! One small comment -- the dump() method actually for > debugging. An object can implement by printing interesting parts of its > current state as text to the output stream. In particular, this is what > makes the dumpsys command work -- all dumpsys really does is call dump() on > whatever IBinder objects it wants to print. > > On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 3:12 AM, devi prasad <dpras...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Hi, I'm preparing a document describing Binder implementation in >> Android. I've already written about four pages combining >> "how-to-write-a-binder-program" with "how-does-it-work" style of >> writing. As I progressed, I thought it might be useful to listen to >> what others think about such an approach. So I'm attaching the >> document for your comments. Please take a look at it and provide your >> suggestions, opinions, views, and what not, to make this a useful >> document. >> FYI, English is not my mother tongue. Therefore, my style may not be >> smooth on ears that converse in English :-) Please feel free to >> suggest improvements not only on the content but also on the overall >> style and readability. >> >> Thank you for your time and patience >> Devi Prasad >> >> PS: I've posted this on both platform and framework groups. I'm always >> confused about these two forums ;-) >> >> > > > > -- > Dianne Hackborn > Android framework engineer > hack...@android.com > > Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to > provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such > questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and > answer them. > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "android-framework" group. To post to this group, send email to android-framework@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-framework+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-framework?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
