[esb-dev] message.getBody().setContents(some object) is deprecated

[Mark Little]

That was one of it's original intentions, plus encryption of data,  
plus a general purpose extensibility element.

Mark.


On 17 May 2007, at 15:40, Kurt T Stam wrote:

> Yeah also with respect to:
>
>> just a byte array for anything that wasn't an Object, e.g., a  
>> stream in
> for bytes, get a stream out of bytes
>
> Isn't everything in java an object? Is this for compatibility across
> languages and platforms then?
>
> --K
>
> Tom Fennelly wrote:
>> While your at that, perhaps we should provide hard examples of
>> why/when one would attach objects to Message.Attachment Vs
>> Message.Body.  From the position of someone just using the API (Vs  
>> the
>> author), these classes look as though they do pretty much the same  
>> thing.
>>
>> T.
>>
>> Kurt T Stam wrote:
>>> Maybe the javadoc too then?
>>>
>>> Mark Little wrote:
>>>> I'm going to update the manual then, because it's obviously as  
>>>> clear
>>>> as mud ;-)
>>>>
>>>> Mark.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 17 May 2007, at 15:02, Kurt T Stam wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Ah that's helps :).
>>>>>
>>>>> Yeah what I'm after is that there need to be a way to get the  
>>>>> whole
>>>>> thing. Sometimes you have no clue what's been set, so there
>>>>> should be way to "Get me the whole thing".
>>>>>
>>>>> --K
>>>>>
>>>>> Mark Little wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 17 May 2007, at 14:49, Kurt T Stam wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> There has been a lot of confusion on how to set the body
>>>>>>> object(s), and
>>>>>>> I think that we should get the word out that the
>>>>>>> 'right' way of doing this is to use:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> message.getBody().add(Body.DEFAULT_NAME, your object)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> There is no single "right" way. This is a default/convenience.  
>>>>>> The
>>>>>> way it's supposed to happen is that the endpoints agree (via the
>>>>>> contract definition) where in the body specific contents go (what
>>>>>> names, for example).
>>>>>>
>>>>>> add(Object o) // <-- no parameter, is just for lazy  
>>>>>> developers ;-)
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> The thing I don't really understand is why getByteArray does not
>>>>>>> stream
>>>>>>> all the objects into the ByteArray? I guess I don't really
>>>>>>> understand
>>>>>>> why we have the "_content" in addition to it; taken from the
>>>>>>> BodyImpl class:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Because that's the definition of getByteArray. It's not meant to
>>>>>> be the entire contents of the message, just a byte array for
>>>>>> anything that wasn't an Object, e.g., a stream in for bytes,  
>>>>>> get a
>>>>>> stream out of bytes. But not mutually exclusive to the named
>>>>>> objects, attachments etc.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> What you're after would probably be: getBodyAsByteArray
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Mark.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> public BodyImpl()
>>>>>>>     {
>>>>>>>         _content = null;
>>>>>>>         _objects = new Hashtable<String, Object>();
>>>>>>>     }
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Thx,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> --Kurt
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
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