Re: Dictionary or interface?

On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 10:42 PM, Jussi Kalliokoski
<jussi.kalliokoski@gmail.com> wrote:
> In the spec, we have a MIDIMessage interface [1], that can be either
> machine-generated (coming in from a device) or created by the user using
> MIDIAccess::createMIDIMessage [2]. What I'd like to do is get rid of the
> whole createMIDIMessage and make the MIDIMessage a dictionary so that
> developers could just pass an object that looks like a MIDIMessage to
> methods that take one as an input. However, the MIDIEvent interface [3]
> contains a collection of MIDIMessages, so I'm not sure how that would work
> if MIDIMessage is a dictionary.
>
> Any ideas? Thanks for the help.

Define a MIDI object with a constructor. Let the constructor take a
dictionary as argument to set its various attributes. Then you can
create an object using new MIDI(...) and it can be returned from
something.


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