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

sure make the change... :-)

- Paul


On Sep 23, 2007, at 10:04 AM, peter royal wrote:

> 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
>
> -- 
> (peter.royal|osi)@pobox.com - http://fotap.org/~osi
>


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