[PATCH] - Add initWithContentsOfURL, arrayWithContentsOfURL, initWithContentsOfFile, arrayWithContentsOfFile to CPArray

[Emmanuel Maillard]

Hi,

Does it need to be split in smaller patches ?
Any comments welcome.
Cheers

Emmanuel

[Ross Boucher]

I'm open to hearing opinions on this, but I'm weary of accepting this patch. There are a lot of people who don't understand the fundamental limitations of the browser, and think that synchronous requests are OK. They are almost universally a bad idea, for all the obvious reasons.

I'm not sure including an API which makes something *look* super simple when in fact it could cause all kinds of headaches. I'd rather include a variant of the Cocoa API which forces asynchronous behavior and uses a callback method or function.

What do other people think?

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[Francisco Tolmasky]

This is a tough call, I agree with Ross that this has a high potential
for misuse, but it does bring parity with Cocoa APIs, along with being
usefull in the terminal. Perhaps we should add these AND the
asynchronous analogs.

>  0001-Add-initWithContentsOfURL-arrayWithContentsOfURL.patch
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[Emmanuel Maillard]

Does asynchronous calls are well defined for an initWith* method ?

It would not better to add a method like : -addObjectsWithContentsOfFile: delegate:
and delegate methods like (-arrayFinishAddingObjects, -arrayDidFailedAddingObjects ...)
for asynchronous call ?