[jsword-devel] Storing user information in JSword

[DM Smith]

I saw it. Thought about it, but I'm going thru the emails since Thursday 
replying to them in turn. Let me know if I don't get to it in a day or two.

DM

On 11/09/2010 01:50 PM, Chris Burrell wrote:
> Indeed, I have seen, and we should change that.  Did you have any 
> insight in terms of the defect I raised? I'm happy to create a patch 
> for it, but I'm not very familiar with that part of the code, having 
> used mainly the exposed API. And so, it would be good to get feel for 
> the way to go about the change, before I change one of the most 
> crucial parts of the whole library! And also whether the other drivers 
> would suffer from the same problem.
>
> You probably know this already, but a few good principles I've picked 
> up over the last few years:
> - dependency injection is good and makes things (more) flexible 
> (whether manual or with a framework)
> - singletons are very hard to test and can cause unforeseen issues 
> (e.g. the one we have come across).
> - statics as options are quite hard to deal with (as you've probably 
> seen on a previous post - still trying to get my head around how to 
> change some of these - I haven't forgotten it)
>
>
> Chris
>
>
>
> On 9 November 2010 18:12, DM Smith <dmsmith at crosswire.org 
> <mailto:dmsmith at crosswire.org>> wrote:
>
>     On 11/06/2010 12:13 PM, Chris Burrell wrote:
>
>         All,
>
>         Just wondering if JSword provides a way of storing user
>         information such as favourite bookmarks, history, etc. on a
>         user by user basis (i.e. for potential use in a web
>         application). I have a database that I could use, but perhaps
>         JSword already provides this?
>
>
>     No. We have a bookmark mechanism planned but it is geared for a
>     single user. As you have found, JSword is not friendly for
>     multi-user use. We should change that.
>
>     In Him,
>        DM
>
>

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