[CAUSEWAY-68] Combine JavaSpecification and JavaIntrospector, and make the mechanism for ordering members more explicit.

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.1.2-incubating
• Component/s: Core
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Daniel Keir Haywood
• Created: 22/Dec/10 15:51
• Updated: 16/Dec/12 13:14
• Resolved: 06/Jan/11 23:19

Description

There is no real separation of responsibilities between JavaSpecification and JavaIntrospector... the responsibility for introspecting is really a responsibility of the FacetFactories that make up the programming model in action. These two classes should therefore be combined.

In addition, the JavaIntrospector currently takes responsibility for applying the ordering of members. In the future we might want to make this a "post-processing" operation, in effect overlaying a UI "schema" for the layout of object members. (The MetaWidget library does something like this, to good effect).

As a first step, we should make clear the raw set of associations/actions; and then make clear the transformation of these sets into ordered/laid out sets.