Re: dynamic loading and unloading of module

On Mon, Aug 19, 2019 at 3:31 AM Robert Klemme <[email protected]>
wrote:

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>
> On Sun, Aug 18, 2019 at 1:31 PM Chris Roerig <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hi. You can’t “remove” them but you can replace them by calling the
>> factory again. My thought was to stuff the functionality needed into
>> dedicated classes and swap that functionality as the need changes. That
>> being said, it’s only one way to address the issue.
>>
>
> But note that the object needs to retain the state. That becomes awfully
> complex with factory pattern because then you have to feed in the previous
> object, replace references - basically it is not factory any more and the
> handling becomes quite complex because you are not retaining object
> identity - which, it seems to me, is required here. As said, I do not think
> factory pattern is the right tool here.
>

It sounds like what would ideally be needed is something like Forwardable
but that lets you change the list of delegates dynamically.

martin


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