[Seaside-dev] GRCodecStream>>isStream ??

[Julian Fitzell]

On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 2:49 PM, Philippe Marschall
<philippe.marschall at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2010/10/6 Norbert Hartl <norbert at hartl.name>:
>>
>> On 06.10.2010, at 10:18, Philippe Marschall wrote:
>>
>> 2010/10/6 Norbert Hartl <norbert at hartl.name>:
>>
>> On 06.10.2010, at 08:56, Philippe Marschall wrote:
>>
>> 2010/10/5 Norbert Hartl <norbert at hartl.name>:
>>
>> I would like to have implemented
>>
>> GRCodecStream>>isStream
>>
>>        ^ true
>>
>> isStream is implemented at least in Object to return false. We some trouble
>> using grease streams with the xml parser.
>>
>> I also thought about this one once. The trouble is that we don't
>>
>> implement the full stream protocol so you might end up wrapping them
>>
>> again. OTOH it can't be more broken than it currently is.
>>
>> I think there is difference between incomplete and broken ;) I mean if you
>> start implementing a class that has stream in its name and that implements
>> the same methods it only makes sense if most of the protocol is there,
>> right? Or to say it in other words. If this is the case there will always be
>> people like me asking why this and that isn't available.
>>
>> I asked about Stream>>tab a while ago. Last time I just changed the code not
>> to use Stream>>tab instead of putting tab into grease stream. The question
>> about isStream is more easy to tackle. The question is what would be the
>> replacement/workaround for isStream? I don't see a good one.
>>
>> Implement a wrapper around GRCodecStream that has the full stream
>> protocol. But I guess at one point or another we'll need to add more
>> of the stream protocol anyway so we can as well start now.
>>
>> I wouldn't implement a wrapper around GRCodecStream I would replace it for
>> my purpose. And that is probably not one of the goals of grease. The only
>> thing  I need to do is to read a XML file in a platform independent manner.
>> This doesn't work with grease and that is a pitty. I don't even recognize
>> the need for discussing this thoroughly. I'm just doing it because I don't
>> have commit rights in the repo.
>> So it would be nice to hear something definite from the core developers. If
>> you are willing to add this to grease that would be fine.
>
> Would be fine with me.

I don't feel strongly either way. So, sure, it's fine with me.

Julian