Re: [Babeldoc-devel] Re: PipelineDocument.toString()

[Dejan K. <dej...@ya...>]

The only problem I see here is that toString was used
in previous versions for getting document as String.
There are examples  in documentation where toString is
used this way. I wrote many pipelines which use
toString method for accessing content, too.
On the other hand I agree with Bruce and Mike that
toString() should return full state of object as
String - not just content. Note that currently (in 1.2
release) there is no way to access content of document
as String so whatever option we choose - it should be
implemented in 1.2 release too, not just 1.3 (1.4
stable). 

Dejan
P.S. 
I fixes few bugs in Scanner module but I have updated
only HEAD branch. I will update 1.2 branch too, and we
can start thinking about 1.2.1 bugfix release.


--- Bruce McDonald <br...@mc...> wrote:
> Mike,
> 
> Good to see you back.  
> 
> I completely agree with you here.  Your name looks
> perfect.
> 
> regards,
> Bruce.
> 
> On Saturday 27 December 2003 01:20 pm, Michael
> Ansley wrote:
> > Hi, Bruce,
> >
> > I noticed the discussion on the users list
> regarding the
> > PipelineDocument.toString() method.  In the
> absence of other
> > suggestions, I'd like to suggest that:
> >
> > a) toString() stay as it is, because I think that
> any toString() method
> > should completely describe the object it's called
> on,
> >
> > b) we create a new method, say documentToString()
> or
> > getDocumentAsString(), which contains the original
> toString()
> > functionality.
> >
> > I'm disinclined to think of this as a bug, and as
> such, I don't see any
> > reason for 1.2 to revert to the old behaviour,
> although others may
> > disagree.  However, I would prefer to see 1.3
> follow the suggestion
> > outlined above.
> >
> > Thoughts...
> >
> > Any objections to me creating the new method in
> 1.3?  Preference for a
> > name?
> >
> >
> > MikeA
> 
> 
>
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