Re: widening Messenger::create

["Matt W. Benjamin" <matt@cohortfs.com>]

Hi,

----- "Sage Weil" <sage@newdream.net> wrote:

> On Thu, 29 Jan 2015, Matt W. Benjamin wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I'm looking at ways to pass potentially messenger-specific options
> through the Messenger factory.
> > The immediate parameter I need to provide is the number of Accelio
> portals to set up (this should
> > vary by Messenger instance), but I expect others will be needed in
> future.  I don't think this fits
> > cleanly on to the Policy mechanism, though I looked at that.  I
> think I'd like to provide a
> > generalized argument to the Messenger factory, which can do the
> right thing for a given Messenger
> > (e.g., constructor).
> 
> In the past we've mostly gotten away with impl-specific config
> options.  
> Is that not sufficient here?  Because you need to pass different 
> parameters to different instances maybe?

Yes, exactly.

> 
> sage


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