On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 11:42 AM, Marius <marius.dan...@gmail.com> wrote:

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>
>
> On Dec 14, 12:10 pm, "Viktor Klang" <viktor.kl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 9:28 AM, Marius <marius.dan...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > On Dec 14, 3:02 am, "Jorge Ortiz" <jorge.or...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > Not to beat a dead horse, but... what's the rationale, again, for
> > > throwing
> > > > an exception after boot? Is there a real danger to some or all
> RulesSeqs
> > > > being mutable after boot? If some, then those rules should
> selectively be
> > > > protected. Even if they're all dangerous, there are better (i.e.,
> type
> > > safe)
> > > > ways of protecting RulesSeqs from mutation than just throwing an
> > > exception.
> >
> > > This was actually DPP's suggestion. I'm not sure why would someone
> > > mutate them after boot but I'm totally opened if there is a strong
> > > case for allowing that. I do not have strong feelings about this so
> > > changing it would be trivial. Still I kind of like it this way. What
> > > other ways of protecting mutations after boot are you referring? ...
> > > something like ignore it and do nothing?
> >
> > Hmm, how about "locking" them by havign a paralell lazy val?
> >
> > val somePf : RuleSeq = Nil;
> >
> > lazy val runtimeSomePf = somePf.toList
> >
> > Then prepending/appending on the somePf AFTER runtimeSomePf has been
> > dereferenced won't make a difference.
> > (runtimeSomePf would be used by Lift internally if that isn't clear
> enough
> > :) )
>
> Still we'd allow useless strong references on those lists.
>
> >
> > Or another, perhaps more suitable suggestion:
> >
> > make boot() have an InitializationContext parameter that's only available
> in
> > the scope of boot, and then the problem should disappear?
>
> How would the problem disappear? ... I mean after boot people would
> still be able to add their functions (from API perspective) and they
> would be surprised that their functions are not called and yet lift
> just allowed them to do that.



I meant something like:

def boot(val lc : LiftContext) =
{
     //prepend/append,configure everything on lc
}


And then when the LiftFilter runt boot:

{
   val lc = LiftContext(/*servletContext and stuff goes here*/)
   boot(lc)
   LiftRules.init(lc)
}

And then only have non-append/prependable stuff in LiftRules?




But really, what is it a problem that lift is reconfigurable during runtime?
I thought that was kind of cool?

Cheers,
Viktor



>
>
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Viktor
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > > > Nit-pick: why is 'toList' (which just returns 'rules') defined as
> > > > private[http] when 'rules' itself is public?
> >
> > > Why would you use toList in the lift app code? ...RulesSeq is mainly
> > > about adding user functions to lift. If "rules" itself is public
> > > doesn't necessary mean that it should not have its "private" logic.
> >
> > > > Also, if RulesSeq are always made up of either Functions or
> > > > PartialFunctions, maybe we should enforce that at a type level, and
> the
> > > > helper methods on Seqs of PFs that now exist in the NamedPF object
> can be
> > > > put in the RulesSeq object.
> >
> > > But what would be the benefit? .. except that it would simplify a bit
> > > how Lift calls these PF's?
> >
> > > ... to me distinguishing between functions and partial functions here
> > > by using Either or even using different RulesSeq traits would not
> > > bring much benefits ... but I hope I'm wrong.
> >
> > > > --j
> >
> > > > On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 2:31 PM, Marius <marius.dan...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > > > > All,
> >
> > > > > I committed a bunch of changes in LiftRules. In a previous thread
> > > > > Jorge suggested the abstraction of LiftRules variables. Lists of
> > > > > functions are now abstracted by RulesSeq trait, which contains
> prepend
> > > > > and append functions. Note that if you're calling prepend/append
> > > > > functions after boot they will throw an exception. If there are
> > > > > compelling reasons not to do this please let us know. This is just
> a
> > > > > mechanism to enforce the use of these functions on startup.
> >
> > > > > Br's,
> > > > > Marius
> >
> > --
> > Viktor Klang
> > Senior Systems Analyst
> >
>


-- 
Viktor Klang
Senior Systems Analyst

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