• Open Menu Close Menu
  • Apple
  • Shopping Bag
  • Apple
  • Mac
  • iPad
  • iPhone
  • Watch
  • TV
  • Music
  • Support
  • Search apple.com
  • Shopping Bag

Lists

Open Menu Close Menu
  • Terms and Conditions
  • Lists hosted on this site
  • Email the Postmaster
  • Tips for posting to public mailing lists
Re: NSURLDownload and userInfo
[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

Re: NSURLDownload and userInfo


  • Subject: Re: NSURLDownload and userInfo
  • From: Trygve Inda <email@hidden>
  • Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 07:39:15 +0000
  • Thread-topic: NSURLDownload and userInfo

> Hi,
> Oh, sorry, replace everything in that message with NSURLDownload, same
> idea.
> I agree with your original approach, especially if you just need to
> store an int (or an NSNumber in this case).
>
> There is a reason almost every delegate method in Cocoa passes the
> delegate object as a parameter, and I am surprised NSURLDownload and
> NSURLRequest do not have userInfo ivars like many other Cocoa classes
> that do asynchronous operations (NSTimer for instance). In my opinion,
> subclassing is the simplest, most MVC compliant, and most Cocoa like
> solution.
>
> While I agree that for more complicated situations, multiple classes
> might be the best solution, I do not think it should be done in this
> case. You don't have to search through an array to match a connection
> with data that is irrevocably tied to that connection. Also, one of
> the purposes of subclassing is to prevent having to create wrapper
> classes. The data is tied to the NSURLDownload object itself, and
> there is no need to do any extra work to get it in one of the delegate
> methods.

Thanks for this. I too am surprised there is no userInfo in these classes
and wanted to be sure I wasn't overlooking something.

Trygve


_______________________________________________

Cocoa-dev mailing list (email@hidden)

Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list.
Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com

Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription:

This email sent to email@hidden

  • Follow-Ups:
    • Re: NSURLDownload and userInfo
      • From: Jens Alfke <email@hidden>
References: 
 >Re: NSURLDownload and userInfo (From: Adam Leonard <email@hidden>)

  • Prev by Date: What is [NSTextStorage fontSetChanged]?
  • Next by Date: NSPersistentDocument Tutorial
  • Previous by thread: Re: NSURLDownload and userInfo
  • Next by thread: Re: NSURLDownload and userInfo
  • Index(es):
    • Date
    • Thread