[Scaffoldhunter-devel] Issue while Implementing Data Import

[Shamshad A. <sha...@gm...>]

Hi everyone,

I'm working on Command Line Interface and currently facing a problem while
implementing functionality to import dataset. There's already a class
'edu.udo.scaffoldhunter.model.dataimport.Importer' available in SH to
manage import process. Importer class has runImport() method as an entry
point. But the runImport() method incorporates GUI and so I can't use this
method in CLI. However, some methods, such as
saveDatasetAndPropertyDefinitions(), which are defined with private
modifier in Importer class are useful in CLI too.

At this point, I can either extends the Importer class, override
runImport() method and change accessibility of private methods which are
defined in Importer class to protected so that I can use them in extended
class or I can simply make the copy of whole code in Importer class and
then I'll modify it to met the requirement of CLI.

In former case, which is an efficient solution, I will not modify any
internal code except methods' access modifier and will add some getter and
setter for the private field if it's required. Please let me know any issue
associated with such modification in any part of the existing code.

Thanks,
Shamshad

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