RETROSPECTIVE

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RETROSPECTIVE We started of by considering possible solutions to the problem of presenting a filtered list to the user. We explored one model that used the Decorator pattern to compose filters. In the end we decided that that was overkill at the moment, and did something much simpler. We did more work on the interface to support category filtering. In the process we moved to a more sophisticated way of having Jemmy find components. We finished of by refactoring the structure of the GUI, using a more elaborate layout approach by that of nested BoxLayouts. There's a bit of a smell to the code. It feels like MovieListEditor knows too much about the filtering of the list. Maybe that knowledge should be extracted into a class that sits between the MovieListEditor and the MovieList. That's starting to sound like the decorator-based solution we thought about at the beginning of this chapter. I'll resist pursuing that now. If we get pushed farther in that direction, we'll have to stop and do some big refactoring to move forward. Stay tuned.

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