Re: [picocontainer-dev] start/stop probs mentioned a could of months ago.

On Aug 10, 2007, at 8:15 AM, Paul Hammant wrote:
> Did you talk of some problems with start/stop and late added  
> components - back when we started Pico 2.x?
>
> Any chance you could make a change or two to support your need -  
> with test case?

so, quite behind on reading this list :)

in psuedo-code, say 'container' is the root of a container tree:

try {
   container.start();
catch( Exception e ) {
   container.stop();
   // yeah, handle the exception
}

if start fails in a child container, its sensible to want to stop  
what is already started, but that fails once it hits a container that  
has not been started. i think the fix would be to allow stop() to be  
called on an un-started container with no side-effects. (ie, start/ 
stop are each idempotent)
-pete

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