On 4/30/06, will pugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
1) You often change method names based on the parameter types, e.g.
Archiver.addFile + Archiver.addFileName, setUnpackDestinationName +
setUnpackDestinationFile, etc. It seems more conventional and less
chaotic to give all the methods the same name, and have them only differ
based on parameter. Examples of this style are constructors for
java.utils.zip.ZipFile, java.io.FileInputStream,
java.io.FileOutputStream, org.apache.commons.io.IOUtils.IOUtils.copy,
org.apache.commons.io.FileUtils.isFileNewer, etc
This is intentional, in a previous version the method names were the
same. The problem with using the same name but different param types
breaks the JavaBean property getter/setter rules and the classes will
not be as usable in at least some scripting environments.
4) None of your interfaces deal with the case of what to do if the
destination file is already there. Choices are either defining it in
the interface, or adding a property defining what to do. I would
suggest the latter, and would suggest that for Archiver this method
should take a FileFilter (since the unpack behaviour can be non-trivial)
and should default to FalseFileFilter.INSTANCE. For the Compresser
interface a simple boolean is probably sufficient. e.g.
Archiver.setOverwriteFilter(TrueFileFilter.INSTANCE)
Compresser.setOverwrite(true);
I'll disagree that this should be configurable. IMO it should just do
whatever FileOutputStream or whatever is used does. It's the calling
code's responsibility to handle any name collisions.
--
Sandy McArthur
"He who dares not offend cannot be honest."
- Thomas Paine
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