Re: Could you comment on my little program? Thank you!

From:
"Oliver Wong" <owong@castortech.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Wed, 20 Sep 2006 14:47:40 GMT
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"Shawn" <shaw@nospam.com> wrote in message
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Oliver Wong wrote:

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   I don't think you should have the client code pass a string in,
because if the client unwittingly passes in the same string twice, that
could screw things up. Instad, your JMenuPower class should take care of
generating a unique identifier (not nescessarly a String) for every
Mapper passed in.


Thank you. Could you elaborate it more? I cannot follow you.


    Your API looks something like this:

addMenuItemAndListener(MenuItem menuItem, String someUniqueCode, Mapper
actionCode, ActionListener listener)

    I'm saying you shouldn't have the code which calls this method provide
the string which is a unique code. For one reason is that they can't be sure
it's really unique. What if you're working on a project with 5 other team
members? You'd have to coordinate which each other some sort of system to
ensure you don't all pick the same unique code.

    You can avoid this problem by changing the API to:

addMenuItemAndListener(MenuItem menuItem, Mapper actionCode, ActionListener
listener)

    and generating a unique code within the method itself.

    - Oliver

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