Re: Methods to EventForwardingFactory

I completely agree. Instead of eating up the exceptions we should just 
throw them up, so that the ApplicationAssembler handles it and I think 
there shouldnt be any problem doing that.

What I am trying to achieve here is this -
    <event-interest event="com.encover.portal.events.GetCompanyList"
        
factory="org.enhydra.barracuda.core.event.helper.EventForwardingFactory">
        <set-property name="forwardEvent">
            com.encover.portal.events.RenderCompanyList
        </set-property>
    </event-interest>

I dont want to specify a new variable and a factory definition in my 
gateway (or elsewhere for that matter) everytime I have a forwarding 
event. As far as the registration goes, the application assembler does a 
wonderful job. The problem with having a method like 
setForwardEvent(BaseEvent bevent) is that the assembler cannot handle it 
(setMethod method in DefaultApplicationAssembler handles only primitive 
types). I might be barking at the wrong tree to start with, if so please 
correct me.

Hope this helps.
Thanks,
Srini.

Jeremy L Rosenberger wrote:

>A method like this, in its current form, is asking for trouble. It
>"eats" exceptions that the application would probably want to know about
>sooner (by having the opportunity to catch them) rather than later (by
>noticing a problem with the application, going back through the logs,
>and happening to notice a ClassCastException or something like that).
>
>That's my opinion, anyway.
>
>Cheers,
>Jeremy
>
>On Tue, 2003-09-30 at 19:33, Christian Cryder wrote:
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>>Hmmm...interesting idea. Anyone have any obj
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>>>    public void setForwardEvent(String eventClass) {
>>>        if (null == eventClass) return;
>>>        try {
>>>            Class c = Class.forName(eventClass);
>>>            fevent = (BaseEvent)c.newInstance();
>>>        } catch (ClassNotFoundException nfe) {
>>>            logger.error("Event class " + eventClass + " not found", nfe);
>>>        } catch (InstantiationException ie) {
>>>            logger.error("Error instantiating " + eventClass, ie);
>>>        } catch (IllegalAccessException iae) {
>>>            logger.error("Error instantiating " + eventClass, iae);
>>>        } catch (ClassCastException ce) {
>>>            logger.error("The class " + eventClass + " should be a
>>>BaseEvent", ce);
>>>        }
>>>    }
>>>      
>>>
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