[switchyard-issues] [JBoss JIRA] (SWITCHYARD-619) Need a convention for plugin "create" methods and optional parameters

[Tom Cunningham (JIRA)]

Tom Cunningham created SWITCHYARD-619:
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             Summary: Need a convention for plugin "create" methods and optional parameters
                 Key: SWITCHYARD-619
                 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/SWITCHYARD-619
             Project: SwitchYard
          Issue Type: Task
          Components: tooling
    Affects Versions: 0.4
            Reporter: Tom Cunningham
             Fix For: 0.4


BPMServicePlugin.java has a create method with 7 parameters - many of which are optional.    Many of our other plugins have a similar situation - the ClojurePlugin's create has 6 parameters, and the RulesServicePlugin's create has 3 optional parameters as well.      

Need a strategy for dealing with this - should the optional parameters be pulled out and put into their own separate modifyX methods? 

from Keith from irc : 
12:37:57 PM) kcbabo: tcunning:  I'm not sure, there are a couple of options with separate pros and cons
(12:38:10 PM) kcbabo: tcunning:  one thing with forge is that you can "cd" into a resource, IIRC
(12:38:20 PM) kcbabo: tcunning:  which gives you context-senstive command access
(12:38:42 PM) kcbabo: tcunning:  so you could CD into a service component (for example) and have localized commands to modify stuff
(12:38:57 PM) kcbabo: tcunning:  another option is to simply add more commands that can be used to modify stuff
(12:39:10 PM) kcbabo: tcunning:  the drawback there is that you could end up with loads of commands
(12:39:27 PM) kcbabo: tcunning:  I think a JIRA is a good idea - not sure we'll reach agreement in time for 0.4, but you never know :-)

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