Re: Cocoa Asynchronous API Design
Re: Cocoa Asynchronous API Design
- Subject: Re: Cocoa Asynchronous API Design
- From: Seth Willits <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 24 May 2011 10:30:36 -0700
On May 24, 2011, at 8:25 AM, Tito Ciuro wrote:
> I have a question about Cocoa API design. I think I can give a concrete example to best explain what the goal is. Assume I have an Inventory service and I need to write a client API that deals with it. Goals:
>
> - The API should allow me to add, update, delete and search items
> - These operations should be asynchronous
- (void)addInventoryItem:(Item *)item resultHandler:(void (^)(NSError * error))resultHandler;
In this way, the result handling block already has access to every parameter and the receiver, so there's no need for verbose delegate methods which pass them all back, or packing and and unpacking an object which contains them all.
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Seth Willits
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