[Adium-devl] Problems with AIPreferenceController and KVO

[Evan Schoenberg]

On Jan 7, 2008, at 10:22 PM, Colin Barrett wrote:

> On Jan 7, 2008, at 5:06 PM, Evan Schoenberg wrote:
>
>> However, it breaks KVO for AIPreferenceController horribly.  When a  
>> dictionary for a group is removed from the cache, it hasn't  
>> changed, and asking the preference controller about it would  
>> retrieve the (same) information and return it.  However, removing  
>> it without calling the willChangeValueForKey: /  
>> didChangeValueForKey: leads to errors like:
>
> What about wrappers? The wrapper would do the job of evicting the  
> cache or looking up from disk when necessary.
>
> I suppose this depends on wether or not KVO requires that an objects  
> address in memory stay the same.
>

This works beautifully, and the code became a TON cleaner in the  
process.  It feels great to remove all that cruft in  
AIPreferenceController and replace it with very simple, object- 
oriented calls. Check out http://trac.adiumx.com/changeset/22196 ! :)

-Evan
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