[infinispan-dev] Wiki up on Querying

[Manik Surtani]

On 25 Sep 2009, at 11:18, Emmanuel Bernard wrote:

>
> On 25 sept. 09, at 11:42, Navin Surtani wrote:
>
>>
>> On 25 Sep 2009, at 02:35, Michael Neale wrote:
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>>> I prefer the pagination approach - as in practice that makes things
>>> easier to use without thinking as hard... could still have option  
>>> for
>>> iterators? (or perhaps not, bloat?)
>>
>> +1
>>
>> Why not have both features since one of them is already built-in?
>
> On new APIs, I tend to put less and in doubt not add the API. It's not
> so much that it's hard to implement, it's because it clutters the API
> and sometimes block you for future improvements because you have to
> support a legacy model. Also it forces you to document the feature and
> what are their use case difference.

I agree with Emmanuel.  This is what I tend to follow as well.

So, no to both approaches; we should pick one.  Iiterator or pagination?
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