Closed Bug 181506 Opened 22 years ago Closed 22 years ago

change xpcom so that callers do not need to know that a class is a service

Categories

(Core :: XPCOM, enhancement)

Product:
Core
Component:
XPCOM
Type:
enhancement
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 181513

People

(Reporter: timeless, Assigned: timeless)

Details

(Keywords: arch) 

People want to believe that being a service is an implementation detail, but the
fact is that it isn't. There is no way for something to find out if the
implementation of a contract is a service and therefore "must" be accessed by
using getService() instead of createInstance().  Someone suggested using
nsIClassInfo, but the catch 22 is that to use classinfo you need a class which
means either calling getService() or createInstance() -- and in today's world if
you call the wrong one, bad things will happen.

I'll attach a discussion, some ideas and other stuff later, for the time being I
just need this bug so I can reference it elsewhere.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 181513 ***
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 22 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
v (timeless sucks)
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
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