Nicola Ken Barozzi wrote:
>
> Nicola Ken Barozzi wrote:
>
>>
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>
>>> donaldp 2002/09/06 02:42:35
>>>
>> ...
>>
>>> Log:
>>> Implement BlockContext.getResourceAsStream() so that a block is
>>> capable of
>>> locating resources in the sar file. This method will retrieve the
>>> resource
>>> regardless of where it is located.
>>> This allows blocks to aquire resources regardless of where they
>>> are located;
>>> * in base directory
>>> * in work directory
>>> * in .sar file (in future)
>>> * in some vfs (in future)
>>
>>
>>
>> This is a non-standard implementation of a Context...
>>
>> -1 *if* Blocks must aquire it using a cast, because it makes them
>> unnecessarily dependent on Phoenix. Unnecessarily since this is a
>> general
>> concept.
>>
>> This can be done also as a Service, so it gets inserted as a
>> dependency; if it must stay in the Context, it should be gotten from
>> the context via a key that is declared in xinfo (I propose it to be
>> standard).
>
>
> I really didn't mean to veto formally, just regard this as an opinion
> on how it could also be done...
>
In which case I'll veto this formally.
-1 to the addition of BlockContext.getResourceAsStream()
This is not 2 -1s on BlockContext (there is also the requestShutdown
method addition that has not been rectified).
Cheers, Steve.
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