Hmm but the method we're talking about is this:
public ISettingDescriptor getContextDescriptor(String contextIdName);
As I understand it returns an ISettingDescriptor for a context ID that doesn't exist. I wasn't talking about the one that gets the ISettingDescriptor of the IContextFactory itself (that would be getSettingDescriptor() in IConfigurableComponent).
So I thought since it returns the ISettingDescriptor of something that doesn't exist, createXXX would sound better.
But that was just a thought, getXXX works too of course.
Markus
On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 5:26 PM, Greg Byrd
<gbyrd@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
I'm ambivalent on the get vs. create method name. When you get a component's descriptor, does it really matter whether one is being allocated from scratch vs. returned by reference?
The "create" method implies the first. "Get" maybe implies the second, but does it necessarily? Get methods can be used for values/objects that are computed, rather than just returned.
I don't have a strong opinion here, but "get" seems the more natural verb to mean "give me a descriptor for your configurable settings."
