[Solar-talk] Method-Based Actions

[Travis Swicegood]

Paul M Jones wrote:
>> As far as being able to pick up a Solar app and figure out what's  
>> going
>> on.  A long term solution might be some sort of introspection that  
>> goes
>> through all of the configuration values and spits out what's  
>> happening.
>> I've seen this used in Java apps where you can add all sorts of custom
>> things.
>>     
>
> That's fine for the long-running app instances that Java provides,  
> but in a shared-nothing architecture like PHP, the introspection has  
> to happen on every request, which can be terribly slow in relation to  
> everything else.  Yeah, you could cache it after the first  
> introspection and read the cache, but even so I think that particular  
> tradeoff (speed for flexibility) is not one I'd like to make right now.
>   

I meant more as in the introspection that Reflections allow.  It's there 
if someone wants to use it to figure out how Solar is configured, but 
Solar is smart enough to know what to do without using them.  Example: 
It knows to load whatever is the configured ActionMapper class to handle 
mapping, but the introspection can load the ActionMapper and return how 
it would map basic actions.

-Travis