I also prefer "MailetContext.getConnection(String dataSourceName)".
Implementing another interface in order to get a datasource is the start of
a slippery slope. Containers that do not provide this functionality should
simply document that fact and throw an UnsupportedOperationException.
Cheers
ADK
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"Danny Angus"
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org> cc:
Subject: Database connections (was RE:
Avalon dependance in mailets)
07/01/2003
09:44
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Ok,
how about this.. I think it may be a better answer to this
there could be two kinds of mailet, Mailet's and DataMailet's the latter,
by
implementing DataMailet, declare their requirement for database
connections.
Then the container implementors can choose and declare in their
specifications whether the container is a DataMailet container
DataMailet would extend Mailet but DataMailetContext
(getDataMailetContext()) would have to provide
getConnection(datasourceName).
Or.. using IOC the container could supply a mailetDatasource on
initialisation which would have a single method.. getConnection().
The last would make it harder for a single mailet to access more than one
datasource, so I prefer the MailetContext().getConnection(datasourceName)
route.
d.
> do we either make db connections available through the MailetAPI
> or do we force mailets to make other arrangements.
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