RE: [Webware-discuss] Thoughts on UserKit...

[Tripp L. <tri...@pe...>]

On Mon, 3 Mar 2003, Geoffrey Talvola wrote:

> I'm not convinced.  From a design perspective I find it better to use a
> subclass.  Or perhaps a Mixin.  Just something that keeps the authentication
> stuff separate from Page.

-1 on subclass, +1 (about forty times over :) ) on a Mixin.

I've been following this thread and it seems to me that all of this
behaviour built around Page is just -begging- for Mixins or delegates of
some sort and documentation of an interface for adding behaviour to pages
through them (e.g., the base Page class will guarantee to call through the
chain of delegates in a particular order, etc.)

This way, we can provide each of the building blocks for authentication,
and each particular piece can be included, left out, overridden, etc.,
without having to subclass for each oddball corner case.

"I walk into this room, and, I'm thinking 'plugins'!" :)