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J. David Blackstone has a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Engineering and nine years of experience at a wireless telecommunications company, where he learned Perl and never looked back. J. David has an advantage in that he works really hard, he has a passion for writing good software, and he knows many of the world's best Perl programmers.
Java: Gotta POST
I'm interacting with a
Except that the libraries don't seem to fully cover this. Thankfully there's a URLEncoder class, or might just crawl away and die, but there's nothing to create the whole POST request for me from a HashMap or something. I have to generate all the headers myself, including the content-length, and I have to encode each parameter individually and glue them all together myself with = and
Annoying. So I guess I'll subclass HashMap myself and do it that way. Fun little exercise, I suppose, but this should be there for me.
--Donald E. Knuth
Not subclassing… (Score:2)
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It's a little late. :)
But really, I don't see how I'm more flexible for implementing Map than simply subclassing HashMap. That just seems like a lot of trouble writing delegates methods that would otherwise just be there if I subclass. It's probably because Perl is the screwdriver with which I attempt to hammer every nail, and the Perl version of hashes as one of the three fundamental data structures is indelibly marked on my mind.
I suppose it makes things easier if ever I want to use some other struc
J. David works really hard, has a passion for writing good software, and knows many of the world's best Perl programmers