> The idea with getContent was to make it possible to work with the > default representation of multiple resource types without calling a > special method. For XMLResource the default behaviour for getContent is > to always return a string. If it is the default behaviour how would you instruct it to return an object of another type? To me it looks like it was supposed to return a String but for some reason Object was chosen to make it possible at a later point to instruct the resource to return another type of object than String. That option was not the final direction so instead you have getContentAsDOM() etc. > > Are you suggesting getContentAsText() should be in addition to > getContent() or should replace it? I agree it would be clearer in the > XMLResource context but I like the idea of as long as you have a > Resource you can call getContent to get the default representation. > > Anyone else have any thoughts on this? What about changing the return type for getContent() to String? then there wouldn't be a need for a getContentAsText()?
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