Create java.util.stream.Stream from Iterator / Enumeration

[Patrick Reinhart]

Hi Paul,

On 2016-07-13 10:28, Paul Sandoz wrote:

> I see some comments already by Stuart and Alan, and concur with Alan
> about working closely with jigsaw-dev.
> 
> Focusing on the public methods is good and then it will come down to
> naming them appropriately. Given that sub-classes can override the
> existing public Enumeration returning methods we most likely need to
> specify the implementation behaviour of the Stream returning methods
> i.e. specify in an @implSpec that they call the Enumeration returning
> methods. Later on it may be possible to sub-types to implement more
> optimally (but the Enumeration “string” is quite long and intertwined
> with the internal code base)

When I understand you correctly here we should concentrate on the public
methods naming firstly? I initially was not sure, what a proper naming
for the steams method was. It seem to me reasonable the way Stuart 
pointed
them out on his first comment to name them something like this:

Stream<URL> resources(String name)
Stream<URL> systemResources(String name)

Has anyone a better naming suggestion? For me those names would fit so
far. If we look into the stream characteristics I would suggest that it
has a unknown size and is immutable in both cases. Maybe the entries are
also distinct, but there I'm not sure.


> The protected findResources method may be trickier, i suggest leaving
> that one alone for now.

 From the point of a consumer of the public API I have no problems with
this approach, as I created the enhancement issue on the public methods
anyway.

Better to deal with that when we know how to do it better.

Cheers Patrick