On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 7:31 PM, Markus Wiederkehr <markus.wiederk...@gmail.com> wrote: > Would it be a problem to change the return type of Message.getSubject?
i'm not a fan of the legacy message API so i generally keep quiet... > Markus > > On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 7:49 PM, Markus Wiederkehr > <markus.wiederk...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I've noticed that Message has a method getSubject() that returns the >> subject as UnstructuredField. >> >> In my opinion it would be more practical if getSubject() simply >> returned a string. The existing getSubject() method would not >> necessarily have to go; it could also be renamed in getSubjectField() >> or something like that. IMHO being able to access the raw meta-data is important but is a low level operation. for low level operations, i favour conciseness over convenience. so i'd say some sort of generic API would be better than getSubjectField. >> Would that be too radical a change? i'm not a fan so i'm bound to say no :-) >> Furthermore I think that Message should have more convenience methods >> like that, getDate(), getFrom(), getTo(), etc.. quite possibly: when going down this route it's a bit hard to know just when to stop but IMHO providing convenient access to standard fields is appropriate for a high level API. - robert --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: server-dev-unsubscr...@james.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: server-dev-h...@james.apache.org
