[fpc-devel] Inversion of control for TCustomHTTPModule and descendants

[Sven Barth]

Am 06.03.2012 17:35, schrieb michael.vancanneyt at wisa.be:
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>
> On Tue, 6 Mar 2012, Sven Barth wrote:
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>> Hello together!
>>
>> I'm currently playing around with fcl-web a bit.
>>
>> As I'd like to utilize inversion of control (e.g. passing things like
>> database connections through the constructor [as one possible
>> implementation of this pattern]) for my modules I'd like to ask
>> whether it would be an idea
>
> whooohoo - expensive terminology detected !!
> "Inversion of Control" :-)

Sorry, but I don't get what you want to tell with that statement... :( 
(maybe my brain is all smashed today after I've read the documentation 
of a Delphi ORM ^^)

>> for a feature request (maybe even with patch) to add an
>> "OnCreateModule" event to TWebHandler which is called inside
>> TWebHandler.HandleRequest before the module is created using CreateNew
>> or Create?
>
> Well, it can only be after create. You need the instance first, and it
> is constructed with Create(New).

That's the point: add an event which creates the module with custom 
parameters (because the module then can use a custom constructor). But 
see below.

> If you need to do something before that, there already is the
> OnGetModule handler.

But OnGetModule only returns the class, not an instance...

> But yes, a centralized initialization handler for webmodules is OK.
> Something like 'OnInitModule' or so ?

That's also an idea. At least then the creation of the module is kept 
inside TWebHandler (to use another expression: "open for extension, but 
closed for modification" ;) )

Regards,
Sven