[infinispan-dev] Too late for an 5.0 API change?

[Galder Zamarreño]

On Jul 19, 2011, at 2:35 PM, Manik Surtani wrote:

> I would rather leave this alone for now.  Once JSR-107 is complete we'll need to change Listenable to be compatible anyway so may as well just do it once.  

Ok.

> 
> And re: fluent API for listeners, why not suggest that on the JSR-107 Google Group.  :)

Sure, I'll post the suggestion there.

> 
> On 19 Jul 2011, at 13:16, Mircea Markus wrote:
> 
>> This is isolated and won't break API compatibility so I think it makes sense.
>> 
>> On 19 Jul 2011, at 09:50, Galder Zamarreño wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi all,
>>> 
>>> What do people think of changing the addListener() APIs to be more fluent?
>>> 
>>> We could either:
>>> 
>>> 1. Change Listenable to be Listenable<T> and then have:
>>> 
>>>  <T> addListener(Object listener);
>>> 
>>> So, implementers such as EmbeddedCacheManager would implement Listenable<EmbeddedCacheManager> and so would implement:
>>> 
>>>  EmbeddedCacheManager addListener(Object listener);
>>> 
>>> 2. Or, more simply, have Listenable define:
>>> 
>>>  Object addListener(Object listener);
>>> 
>>> and EmbeddedCacheManager using covariants to implement:
>>> 
>>>  EmbeddedCacheManager addListener(Object listener);
>>> 
>>> Btw, the same would apply to removeListener.
>>> 
>>> Thoughts?
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