[Tm4j-developers] TopicMapProvider

[Gerd M. <ge...@sm...>]

Hi,

I'm about to implement the TopicMapProvider stuff for ozone. What
I'm missing is something like a createTopicMap() method. I would
suggest to extend the TopicMapProvider interface with the
following method:

public TopicMap buildTopicMap( InputSource input, 
    TopicMap existingTopicMap ) throws TopicMapProviderException;

This method parses the input source and either creates a new
TopicMap if existingTopicMap is null or merges it otherwise.
I'm not sure about the baseURL of the new TopicMap: Should it
created automatically by the provider or can it be user defined ?

Best Regards,
Gerd

P.S. While browsing the code I found TopicImpl.m_contribThemes. Is
this still necessary ? Otherwise I would suggest to remove it. Also
TopicMapImpl has a member m_id although it already inherits one
from TopicMapObjectImpl.

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