On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 11:46 AM, Erik Jan de Wit <ede...@redhat.com> wrote: > >> What is the benefit of using this logic? I personally don't see any >> benefit, since this makes our code more complex. > > It would benefit the users as they don’t have to implement this boilerplate > code of dispatching based on the string. And this logic will be then on the > android side where it’s implemented once instead of each time one is building > a plugin.
Except that now every method exposed has to have a particular signature. I personally would rather see us use a Map as what Andrew suggested, and I really don't want this to happen. This is going to cause a lot more problems than it's going to solve since plugins that already throw exceptions may end up having it caught by the try/catch which will surround this whole thing. This is a BIG change in the API, and I don't think your reason justifies breaking every plugin that currently exists.
