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

Tom Cunningham created SWITCHYARD-619: ----------------------------------------- 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 :-) -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators: https://issues.jboss.org/secure/ContactAdministrators!default.jspa For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira