[OpenJDK 2D-Dev] JDK-8153732 would it be possible to extend the PrintServiceLookup with a refresh method?

[Phil Race]

Possible, but should we ?
That is the method that does the refresh once we've received the 
notification.
We wanted to avoid applications having to continually call this method 
every time
the applications asks for the list because it may be a lengthy operation.
If it were not we probably would have just done that.

So then the app has to figure out a policy on how often to ask for a refresh
and this is what we wanted to avoid.

And given that the reason to call the method is somewhat environmental
it might be tricky to explain why and when to call it given that mostly it
is not necessary.

-phil.



On 05/25/2016 12:59 PM, Patrick Reinhart wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I know you that this issue does not have the highest priority. Even 
> though I would like to work on a possible solution without having to 
> relay exclusively on a OS specific solution. I have looked into the 
> different actual implementations of the PrintServiceLookup and found 
> out that there all having already such a functionality that is called 
> refreshServices().
>
> My question is now: Could this method not me made available as a 
> public API method on the PrintServiceLookup? That would solve my 
> problem in a pretty simple way, that if a remote printer is being 
> changed this method could be called to manually refresh the printers.
>
> What is your opinion about this?
>
> Cheers
>
> Patrick

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