Re: Possibility to extend the Zone class

[Brian W. <bwe...@xb...>]

On Oct 12, 2011, at 11:49 AM, Lucas Ferreira wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I am working on a project based on dnsjava (actually, I am trying to
> extend Eagle DNS) and need to publish a zone which is too big too fit
> in memory, so I need to extend the Zone class.
> 
> While woking on this, I am having problems because the Zone
> findRecords method must return a SetResponse object. Unfortunately,
> the SetResponse constructors and set methods are only available inside
> the org.xbill.DNS package, which makes it impossible to extend the
> Zone class without altering the dnsjava jar file.
> 
> So, I have a couple of questions/suggestions:
> 
> 1. Is it possible to make dnsjava more extensible by providing Zone as
> an interface, so users may provide their own Zone implementations?

It's certainly possible, but it would break backwards compatibility, which is a bad thing.

> 2. Is it possible to make the SetResponsible constructors and setters
> available to external classes?

Possibly, but the external API would need some cleaning up first.

Brian