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Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2013 02:00:41 -0800 (PST)
From: Babak Vahdat <babak.vahdat@swissonline.ch>
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Subject: Re: About 4 method signatures by the ClassResolver API
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Thanks for your feedback Christian!

Currently I'm in Holiday. Will take care of this when I'm back in town
again.

Babak


Christian Mueller wrote
> +1
> I see your point. Doesn't make sense to me too.
> 
> Best,
> Christian
> 
> On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 11:42 AM, Babak Vahdat
> &lt;

> babak.vahdat@

> &gt;wrote:
> 
>> Hi
>>
>> Looking at the public ClassResolver API (among others) it provides 4
>> methods
>> taking over the concrete to be loaded Class type:
>>
>>
>> http://camel.apache.org/maven/current/camel-core/apidocs/org/apache/camel/spi/ClassResolver.html#resolveClass%28java.lang.String,%20java.lang.Class%29
>>
>> http://camel.apache.org/maven/current/camel-core/apidocs/org/apache/camel/spi/ClassResolver.html#resolveClass%28java.lang.String,%20java.lang.Class,%20java.lang.ClassLoader%29
>>
>> http://camel.apache.org/maven/current/camel-core/apidocs/org/apache/camel/spi/ClassResolver.html#resolveMandatoryClass%28java.lang.String,%20java.lang.Class%29
>>
>> http://camel.apache.org/maven/current/camel-core/apidocs/org/apache/camel/spi/ClassResolver.html#resolveMandatoryClass%28java.lang.String,%20java.lang.Class,%20java.lang.ClassLoader%29
>>
>> However referencing the to be loaded Class type in this way would make
>> the
>> given Class object to be already loaded statically through the JVM itself
>> :-) so that as soon as the actual parameters are put on the call stack
>> for
>> these methods the concrete Class object is already loaded even *before*
>> these methods return!
>>
>> I think originally the idea behind these methods was to avoid a need to
>> (explicitly) type cast for the caller, e.g. like the following method
>> we've
>> got by the Exchange interface:
>>
>>
>> http://camel.apache.org/maven/current/camel-core/apidocs/org/apache/camel/Exchange.html#getProperty%28java.lang.String,%20java.lang.Class%29
>>
>> However in case of the ClassResolver API the same doesn't make much sense
>> (correct me if I'm wrong) so IMHO we should better @deprecate these
>> methods
>> and remove them in 3.0 because the idea behind the ClassResolver API is
>> to
>> *dynamically* load the classes, however using these methods make the
>> given
>> classes already being *statically* loaded.
>>
>> Thoughts?
>>
>> Babak
>>
>>
>>
>>
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