See my comment at WICKET-5702 (I accidentally put it in 4972 too). I'd
rather construct a better API in the first place...

Martijn

On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 2:42 PM, Martin Grigorov <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/WICKET-5702 hit a problem with
> StringResourceModel that we uses Object... as a last parameter in its
> constructors.
>
> I think that using Object... is evil, especially when there is an
> overloaded method/constructor that "looks like" the other one.
> For example:
>
> MyObject(String p1, Object... extra)
> MyObject(String p1, Integer p2, Object... extra)
>
> If a developer wants to pass p2 as an extra then (s)he has to be really
> careful.
>
> In https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/WICKET-4972 I have suggested to
> use Object[] instead, but later when I worked on it for 7.0.0-M1 I have
> forgotten to change it.
>
> By using Object[] the developer has to type some more but it is much easier
> to reason about.
>
> Any objections to make the change for 7.0.0-M4 ?
>
>
> Martin Grigorov
> Wicket Training and Consulting
> https://twitter.com/mtgrigorov



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