[Owncloud] [Proposal] New hooks system
Robin Appelman
icewind at owncloud.com
Mon May 6 16:26:51 UTC 2013
The current hooks system (provided by OC_Hooks) gives serious issues with
testablity of the core classes, it's hard to controll the side effects of test
cases caused by hooks emmited by the tested classes.
To solve this I propose to create an updated hooks system that scopes the
emited events and listeners to an instance of the class emitting the event.
That way any events emited by an instance of a class created for testing
purposes won't cause any side effects outside the test case.
A quick writeup of the proposal can be found here
https://gist.github.com/icewind1991/1e315e6e75c106406405
This is not meant to completely replace the current hook system as it does not
provide a 1-on-1 mapping of functionality, instead it's mind as a system to be
used by any future event-emitting class (a proposal for one of those will come
later :) )
The system provides an easy way to provide backwards compatiblity if a new
implementation is created for a class that has existing hooks
- Robin Appelman
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