On 12 Sep 2015, at 17:34, Nicolai Hess <nicolaihess@web.de> wrote:



2015-09-09 14:32 GMT+02:00 Yuriy Tymchuk <yuriy.tymchuk@me.com>:
Hi,

as NautilusMethodSelected contains also an information about protocol, class, package;
NautilusProtocolSelected contains an information about class and package;
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I���ve inherited NautilusClassSelected from NautilusPackageSelected and NautilusProtocolSelected from NautilusClassSelected��� to remove duplication. But as announcement subscription also includes it���s subclasses, if you subscribe to NautilusPackageSelected, you end up receiving also NautilusClassSelected, NautilusProtocolSelected and NautilusMethodSelected.

What is a good way to resolve this (I can simply separate all the classes, but maybe there is something important from conceptual point of view)?

I didn't know announcments are working that way, but it may make sense if you want to group announcments (register once for "WindowAnnouncement" and receiving all kind of
subannouncements (WindowClosed/WindowOpened ���)

I don���t know about performance, but as far as I understand you can also subscribe to ���WindowAnnouncement withAllSubclasses���.


What we could do (maybe this is a bit overkill):

- make an announcements hierarchy (NautilusPackageAnnouncement -> NautiulusClassAnnouncement ...) but never subscribe to this Announcemnts
- create sub classes for every "kind"
NautilusPackageAnnouncement subclass: NautilusPackageChangedAnnouncement
NautilusPackageAnnouncement subclass: NautilusPackageSelectedAnnouncement

NautilusClassAnnouncement subclass: NautilusClassSelectedAnnouncement
NautilusClassAnnouncement subclass: NautilusClassChangedAnnouncement

And only subscribe to this subclasses.
That way we are using the hierarchy of Announcement classes for removing of duplicated code, but only
register and announce the "leaf"-nodes (NautilusClassChangedAnnouncement / NautilusPackageChangedAnnouncement...)

what do you think?

This may do. Also another option would be to have a NautilusSelectionAnnouncement with all 4 attributes, and then just subclass it for a different type.

Uko







 

Uko