[Swift-devel] Re: runtime mapper loading of mappers

[Mihael Hategan]

ClassLoader.loadClass()?

On Fri, 2007-09-28 at 14:34 +0000, Ben Clifford wrote:
> On Fri, 28 Sep 2007, Mihael Hategan wrote:
> 
> > Can you be more specific?
> 
> at present there's no clear way to get a mapper class from outside of the 
> swift build installed into the runtime such that it can be used by 
> swiftscript programs - you need to add a registration line somewhere in 
> code that gets run during swift startup (as happens for all existing 
> mappers in MapperFactory.java) so that references to a mapper in a 
> SwiftScript program will end up using the appropriate class.
> 
> i would like ultimately to have a way to make that happen without a 
> rebuild of Swift.
> 
> There are various ways to do it - eg config files listing the bindings 
> instead of hardcoding them; or listing classes that are to be loaded (and 
> have static initialisers run) at startup time, with the static init code 
> knowing the binding.
>