Re: API design

From:
Knute Johnson <nospam@rabbitbrush.frazmtn.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Wed, 24 Jun 2009 09:02:21 -0700
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Stefan Ram wrote:

  I assume that one wants to design an API with the option to
  open a FileOutputStream for /append mode/. There are several
  possibilities, and one can compare their readability,
  extendability (fitness for later API extensions), usability
  and other software quality factors. (feel free to comment):

==

  new FileOutputStream( "path", "a" );

==

  new FileOutputStream( "path", "append" );

==

  new FileOutputStream( "path", true );

==

  new FileOutputStream( "path", FileOutputStream.APPEND_MODE );

==

  new FileOutputStream( "path", FileAccessMode.APPEND_MODE );

==

  new FileOutputStream( path, new AppendMode() );

  /* here, ?AppendMode? might be a subtype of another type ?FileAccessMode? */

==

  new FileOutputStream( path, new FileAccessMode( "append" ));

==

  new AppendFileOutputStream( path );

  /* here, ?AppendFileOutputStream? might be a subtype of ?FileOutputStream? */

==

  Possibly, I have missed others possibilities to design this.
 


I like FileAppendStream but what is the point of this? FileOutputStream
already has a constructor that will append.

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Knute Johnson
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