[Platemail-developer] Properties

[Neil C. <ba...@th...>]

On Monday 31 January 2005 10:00, you wrote:
> > I'm going to start a bit of Platemail hacking now.
>
> Good, good. =A0I did some poking, and I think I've gotten the basic idea
> for how it's going to work. =A0I've implemented a little sample which
> lists the Vector for Properties for pop3mailsource. =A0That's quite
> straight forward, however I really think we need a more organised/formal
> way of adding the classes that are to be saved.
>
> To whit;
>
> 1) Modifying the constructors to add a reference to the registry

I'd be careful with doing this in the constructor; there may be cases where=
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you don't want to add them (though none that immediately occur).  Perhaps y=
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could just have a register() method to be called after construction, and=20
optionally a static method on the class which creates you a new object and=
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registers it for you.  The other alternative is to pass a boolean flag to t=
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constructor, but it seems to me that registration isn't really a constructo=
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task.

> 2) Adding
> =A0 =A0- a Vector of properties

Why not just a Properties object?

> =A0 =A0- a method called by the constructor (?) to populate that list
> =A0 =A0- a method to register the properties vector
> =A0 =A0- a method to unregister the properties vector
>
> Currently, I just call these methods "manually" from the class
> corresponding to "addpopaccount", however these should really be
> self-contained within each class. =A0Adding an interface to specify these
> properties would probably be the best plan.

OK.  Are you going to specify a common interface (PlatemailObject or=20
RegisteredObject or something) that all filters, mail sources and so on can=
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implement?

Cheers,
Neil