[Solar-talk] Solar::loadInterface()?

[Paul M Jones]

Hi Antti,

On Sep 12, 2006, at 11:20 AM, Antti Holvikari wrote:

> On 9/12/06, Clay Loveless <clay at killersoft.com> wrote:
>> On Sep 12, 2006, at 9:05 AM, Antti Holvikari wrote:
>>
>>> On 9/6/06, Antti Holvikari <anttih at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Hi!
>>>>
>>>> ZendFW has it, should Solar have it too? Or is there a reason why
>>>> it's
>>>> not there? Now I have to use require_once to load my interfaces...
>>>
>>> Hey you guys at Mashery ;-), what's your opinion on this?
>>
>> Thanks for reminding me of this thread -- missed it while I was out
>> of town.
>>
>> For what it's worth, this makes sense to me. Half of it is already in
>> place with Solar::run(), the rest is here:
>>
>> public static function loadInterface($interface)
>> {
>>      // did we ask for a non-blank interface?
>>      if (trim($interface) == '') {
>>          throw Solar::exception(
>>              'Solar',
>>              'ERR_LOADINTERFACE_EMPTY',
>>              'No interface named for loading',
>>              array('interface' => $interface)
>>          );
>>      }
>>
>>      // pre-empt further searching for the interface
>>      if (interface_exists($interface, false)) {
>>          return;
>>      }
>>
>>      // convert the interface name to a file path.
>>      $file = str_replace('_', DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR, $interface) .  
>> '.php';
>>
>>      // include the file and check for failure. we use run() here
>>      // instead of require() so we can see the exception backtrace.
>>      $result = Solar::run($file);
>>
>>      // if the interface was not in the file, we have a problem.
>>      if (! interface_exists($interface)) {
>>          throw Solar::exception(
>>              'Solar',
>>              'ERR_LOADINTERFACE_EXIST',
>>              'Interface does not exist in loaded file',
>>              array('interface' => $interface, 'file' => $file)
>>          );
>>      }
>> }
>
> Exactly :-), Paul? Commit? :-)

Catching up on queued Solar email here; the loadInterface() method is  
now part of the SVN version of Solar.  Thanks for your patience on my  
replies.  :-)


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