[jboss-jira] [JBoss JIRA] Commented: (JBESB-181) Provide a more convenient/obvious means of accessing the "current" object on the Message Body???

[Tom Fennelly (JIRA)]

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Tom Fennelly commented on JBESB-181:
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And yet another option might be to define a static inner class in the ActionProcessor interface such that ActionProcessor to provide "helper" type methods for accessing message components e.g.

ActionProcessor.MessageAccessor.setProcessingObject(message, object);
...
Object processingObj = ActionProcessor.MessageAccessor.getProcessingObject(message);

... so the static string is completely hiden and the getting and setting are centrally managed... in fact, we could change where we store it in the future (should we decide to do that) and no ones code would break (in theory ;-) )

> Provide a more convenient/obvious means of accessing the "current" object on the Message Body???
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>                 Key: JBESB-181
>                 URL: http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBESB-181
>             Project: JBoss ESB
>          Issue Type: Task
>      Security Level: Public(Everyone can see) 
>          Components: ESB Core
>    Affects Versions: 4.0
>            Reporter: Tom Fennelly
>         Assigned To: Mark Little
>            Priority: Minor
>             Fix For: 4.0
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> ActionProcessors need to call "Message.getBody().get(CURRENT_OBJECT)" in order to access the "current" body Object.  Is this not a little obscure?  Would it not be more convenient/intuitive if the "current" object could be accessed via something like "Message.getBody().getCurrent()" - it could wrap "Message.getBody().get(CURRENT_OBJECT)" in the Body impl.
> Also, should CURRENT_OBJECT be defined on the ActionProcessor or Body type?  It's currently defined in ActionProcessor?  Of course this would mean that the current "Message.getBody().get(CURRENT_OBJECT)" calls would all need to be modified to "Message.getBody().get(Body.CURRENT_OBJECT)", but I'd think that is clearer anyway.
> Just some usability thoughts - feel free to delete the issus!

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