Design choice for optional hook subscription
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At some manager class there is:
AbstractType[]
where AbstractType has the empty override method OnTick()
30 times per second, the manager class wants to call OnTick for all of the instances in that array but if it does it over the original list then there are wasted calls for non-overriders.
So i want the AbstractType implementers to be able to indicate that they implement OnTick with the caveat that I really don't want to clutter the API for the implementers.
I've narrowed it down to two options:
1. have the default throw a NonImplementedException, have the manager iterate the list, and catch / subscribe accordingly on start. Then use the subscriber list to do more efficient calls.
2. instead of throwing and catching on start, use reflection to check if they implement the method.
AbstractType[]
where AbstractType has the empty override method OnTick()
30 times per second, the manager class wants to call OnTick for all of the instances in that array but if it does it over the original list then there are wasted calls for non-overriders.
So i want the AbstractType implementers to be able to indicate that they implement OnTick with the caveat that I really don't want to clutter the API for the implementers.
I've narrowed it down to two options:
1. have the default throw a NonImplementedException, have the manager iterate the list, and catch / subscribe accordingly on start. Then use the subscriber list to do more efficient calls.
2. instead of throwing and catching on start, use reflection to check if they implement the method.
