[josm-dev] Jumbo Patch

[Gervase Markham]

Dave Hansen wrote:
> Yeah, now that I look at it, very few people were actually poking the
> Way.nodes in any significant ways.  We could allow direct access to the
> nodes, I just worry a bit that people will _start_ to poke it in bad
> ways, or forget to update the node->way cache.  Although, I guess we
> could also just override the list functions in a subclass and get some
> of the same behavior.

If you are finding yourselves writing lots of stub functions that don't 
do anything, then the Adapter pattern (or, at least, what Sun calls the 
Adapter pattern) is what you need :-) Example:
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/api/java/awt/event/MouseAdapter.html

Then, your derivative class extends FooAdapter, and you don't have to 
stub out all the methods; you just implement the ones you need.

Gerv