RE: [Htmlparser-developer] ParserFeedback mechanism

[<dha...@or...>]

Hi Derrick,

> There didn't appear to be anything in the licence 
> (http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/license.html) that precludes 
> repackaging the code into the htmlparser tree. It isn't very large. We

> would have to say

Derrick, is there any real need to repackage the logging code with our
code. Primarily this would mean that we really won't be able to take
advantage of any new enhancements/bug-fixes there are in the Logging
Wrapper in the Apache tree. Why not just use their latest binary?

> There is however, the task of re-working every file in the source tree

> to use the logging wrapper mechanism, which is non-trivial (190 files,

> 83 of which are tests).

Its not that all our files use the Feedback and hence I really don't
think all files should require change. I've explained below.

> Of course for backwards compatibility, we should just deprecate the 
> ParserFeedback (et al) and provide an implementation for it in terms
of 
> the new logging code.

How about making ParserFeedback extend Log interface of Logging Wrapper.
Then DefaultHTMLParserFeedback should declare feedback as follows :

private static ParserFeedback feedback; 

Obviously all mode related code would have to be deprecated/deleted. We
could have a single argument constructor as follows

public DefaultParserFeedback (Class clazz)
{
      feedback = LogFactory.getInstance(clazz)
}

and a no-arg constructor as

public DefaultParserFeedback ()
{
      feedback = LogFactory.getInstance(this.class)
}

Classes using the same will create feedbacks as :

new DefaultParserFeedback(this.class);

Hope I've not taken things too simply and have given a comprehensive
idea of how the Logging Wrapper should be incorporated with the Parser.

Regards,
Dhaval