[Biojava-l] ChangeEvent

[Matthew Pocock]

Hi all,

Sory about the volume of mail from me today - hope I haven't been 
cloging your in-box too badly. I've been using the ChangeEvent system 
while refactoring the sequence rendering code. Thomas and I originaly 
wrote this stuff, but I keep forgetting the method names on ChangeEvent 
for retrieving the old/new values. Currently they are:

old: getPrevious
new: getChange

Can I change these to

old: getOldValue
new: getNewValue

Is there a better way to name these methods? It is always a sign that 
things need changing when the original authors can't remember the names 
:-) The signatures of the constructors could be changed to something 
more explicit like:

ChangeEvent(java.lang.Object source, ChangeType type, java.lang.Object 
newValue, java.lang.Object oldValue, ChangeEvent chain)

Again, I keep getting the order wrong, and the docs don't stick in my 
mind long enough.

Matthew

ps this won't affect the release branch at all, only the main trunk 
development