After beginning to use Snooze on a real project I realised it needed to be more extensible and more testable. So I re-wrote it!

The new code is now in the trunk: http://svn2.assembla.com/svn/snooze/trunk

A key extensibility point is the "ResourceContext" class. Before a resource is invoked, it's ResourceContext is initialised with relevant data such as HttpContext, invoke verb, GET view and file type. The base Resource class allows sub-classes to specify a particular ResourceContext sub-class, by the use of a generic type parameter. So when using Snooze in a web project it is easy to define extra context data that is always available to any resources. Instead of adding properties to a Resource class, the use of a context object allows data to be easily shared between a sub-resource and it's parent resource chain.

A Snooze resource also has a ResourceFactory object. The type of this is also generically typed so that a web project can provide a customized factory.

These changes make it easy to do things like test that a resource creates sub-resources (through the factory).

Monday, March 24, 2008 5:19:52 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)      Comments [0]