--------------------------------------------^^^^ Interesting,didn't know that, thought to have been in Darmstadt ;-)
On Tuesday, Aug 19, 2003, at 22:41 Europe/Rome, Christian Haul wrote:
I know, actions are not liked by everyone, but this is one of the best applications for them.
are you suggesting we don't think about adding interception in flow because otherwise this would kill the only place where actions have a reason to exist?
I'm going to ignore this comment.
So, please provide a more convincing use case for the introduction of AOP in Cocoon ;-)
Actions can be used as interceptors. It's not their only ability, but yes, it's possible and good actions do perform this way.
So, any use case that requires action-based interception, will work as nicely with flow interception.
What would we gain?
1) action-based interception is a concern of the flow layer, not of the pipeline definition. i will never stop saying this, but actions should not exist in the sitemap realm, since they mix concerns.
Well, probably yes. Although with very little organization, SoC can be achieved for this use case. But in general, you are right.
2) actions have a terribly poor error handling capability, even when used as interceptors, flow-based interception keeps all the functionality available at the flow level.
Right, one can easily start a complex flow as error handling.
3) actions are hardcoded in the sitemap pipelines definitions. flow-based interception will allow to wrap existing code without needing to modify it or it will be possible to "remove" or modify interception without modifying the original flow code.
Absolutely. I don't want to argue about AOP in general. It's just that your example is only touching the concept and for this we already have a solution. This solution is not as elegant as AOP but it's here and it's usable. We have some other features we all agree are really needed i.e. blocks. I'm not at all against AOP in Rhino. I just would like us to be more focussed on Cocoon, that's all ;-)
I'll think about more juicy use cases tonight.
Great!
Chris.
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