[jdom-interest] Query regarding the Parent/Child interfaces.

[Simon Gauld]

Ok,

sorry for the my oo-101 - that's always a bad idea amongst programmers - it
always reads back as being a bit lame, so sorry!!.. I revoke that bit!..

Anyway - my question is - what was the need to introduce the Parent and
Child interfaces on the Element, when you can derive relationships via
.getChild / .getChildren / .getParent logic anyway?

Alex: I find it interesting that you believe using instanceof should be
avoided or minimized - this is a technique I find quite useful to be able to
derive general functionality - I wasn't aware it was something that that
should be avoided, and am somewhat confused as to why you say minimize uses
of it.

With regards to putting an interface on something if it might be able to do
something in the future, again - that seems strange, especially in this
instance; an Element in future could be a "cousin" of another; you wouldn't
put a Cousin interface on it, would you - the ability to derive
relationships between elements such as an element being a child-of or
parent-of has been there since the start.  

What business case was there for putting Child and Parent into the model
that the original functionality didn't deliver?

.s



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