Hello Xander, On Dec 13, 2011, at 10:29 AM, Xander Uiterlinden wrote:
> Currently we're using the dependency manager in our project. A feature we > extensively use is the resource adapter. > The resource adapter service gets access to a resource through the > abstraction of a URL. This is a nice abstraction > but raises challenges whenever an implementation requires more properties > of the resource, e.g. the last modification date > or the encoding. > > At the moment we're working our way around it by creating implementing a > custom URLHandler. > > It would be nicer if the resource adapter could be provided with a set of > optional properties. My suggestion would > be to extend the added(URL resource) method of the ResourceHandler with an > additional argument holding a > untyped set of properties. When provided these will be injected into the > resource adapter implementation. Interesting thought. I guess you could compare these properties to the ones you can specify when you register a service. Thinking along, you could also use these to provide a more precise filter condition for the ResourceHandlers you register. I can see how this could speed things up. Greetings, Marcel
