Re: Keyed decoding of geometry

[Gregory John Casamento]

Does Apple use a separate method for this?   If not, why should we?

GJC

--- Richard Frith-Macdonald <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> On 26 Jan 2004, at 13:49, Fred Kiefer wrote:
> 
> >
> > Looks like we have a disagreement here. What about a compromise for 
> > the time this area is still under heavy development? For now the keyed 
> > unarchiving code goes into a separate method that gets called from the 
> > specific initWithCode: methods that still contain the old decoder 
> > code. When we are sure about the code that goes there we can see, if 
> > there is any similarity with standard coding making sharing 
> > worthwhile, or not.
> >
> > At least for the AppKit classes this will be needed. I am not that 
> > sure about the Fondation classes. Here the few classes I did implement 
> > are so simple, that merging the code would do. So what about doing 
> > Foundation your way (everything in one initWithCoder: method) and 
> > AppKit uses the separate method approach, with a review taking place 
> > in about half a year?
> 
> Sounds OK, but I'd like to point out that putting everything in the 
> -initWithCoder: and encodeWithCoder: methods is not my way.   My way is 
> to do whatever seems best on a case by case basis, and not to write 
> code which makes assumptions about private methods of superclasses.
> 
> By the way, the keyed encoding/decoding should be fully working for xml 
> format archives now ... at least to the point where we need to start 
> using it in order to find and fix any remaining bugs.  It seems pretty 
> straightforward except for being sure of the circumstances when apple 
> library classes use private methods of NSKeyedArchiver and 
> NSKeyedUnarchiver.
> 
> 
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