storage branch - facade ?

[Robert Collins]

On Sun, 2005-11-20 at 22:31 -0500, Aaron Bentley wrote:
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> Robert Collins wrote:
> | Aaron,
> | 	what do you think of having Branch be a Facade? That would reduce the
> | api churn from the storage branch while still getting the required
> | flexability and refactoring. It could also be nicer for Foreign
> | branches?
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> I've read about that pattern, but I've never seen it in action, so it's
> pretty vague to me.  Are you suggesting, basically, that Branch would
> hide the supporting classes, while still providing all their functionality?

Right. So rather than clients of branch doing 'branch.storage.FOO', they
would call 'branch.FOO', and branch would delegate to storage.

Rob

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