From: Mike Bethany <mikbe.tk@...>
Date: 2011-06-26T09:22:12+09:00
Subject: Single Responsibility Question

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I'm trying to figure out who's responsible for a resource.

Here's the situation:
An object, the listener, tells another object, the watched, to tell it when
something happens. When the event happens the watched object creates a
thread to call the listener's callback method.

My question is who's responsible for the thread? The watched object created
it but only to make sure the listener's method doesn't block any other
methods the watched object needs to call in any other listeners.

Right now the thread goes out of scope almost immediately in the watched
object (it's created in a loop) so the listener is the only thing holding a
reference open to that thread. This seems like the right way to do it but
I'm worried about run away threads. Or if the watched object should even be
worried about it.

Typing this out makes it seem pretty clear to me that even though the
watched object created the thread the listener is responsible for it. The
watched object should not be responsible for the listener's code. Right?

I want to make sure I'm not just convincing myself though, that I forgotten
something I should have thought of. If anyone has any input on this please
let me know, thanks.

Mike

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