[Bioperl-l] Factory::GenericObjectFactory

[Hilmar Lapp]

Actually, the reason I wrote that was that I wrote lots of individual 
interface-specific factories until it finally exceeded my level of 
painful-but-quick tolerance. I then didn't remove all the specific 
factories, but made them very thin descendants of ObjectFactory that 
basically set a default interface and possibly also a default type.

But OTOH this is really so thin that you might just as well get rid of 
them altogether, and if someone tells me having so many factories is 
confusing I'll in fact do that.

	-hilmar

On Thursday, May 15, 2003, at 03:11  PM, Steve Chervitz wrote:

> Hilmar: Fine with me. I must have been too lost in SearchIO world to 
> notice when you added ObjectFactory. I like the interface() method and 
> I added it to the ObjectFactory calls you put in some of the SearchIO 
> modules. I also changed SearchResultEventBuilder and 
> SearchIO::fasta.pm to use ObjectFactory instead of the various 
> Search::*::*Factory objects.
>
> Jason & other interested parties: What do you think about this 
> approach? This way, we don't need the Search::*::*Factory modules. If 
> you think this is kosher, we can make the same changes in the other 
> SearchIO modules (FastHitEventBuilder, axt, waba).
>
> Steve
>
> On Thursday, May 15, 2003, at 01:33 US/Pacific, Hilmar Lapp wrote:
>
>> I removed this module as it essentially duplicates 
>> Factory::ObjectFactory, but with a little less functionality.
>>
>> SteveC I guess you overlooked that such a module was already there 
>> when you committed it. I hope you are not offended -- but 
>> ObjectFactory was already used at a couple of places and I didn't 
>> quite see why we need two of this sort.
>>
>> 	-hilmar
>
>
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