I think that's an interesting question, if you see it from this point of view: "As soon as a Page object has been created, is it possible to get its length without getting it? Page.get() is much slower than creating a Page obiect, and there's a lot of attributes/methods that can be read immediately, while other attributes need one Page.get(). Could be a Page.getSize() a "first class method", that a user can read immediately?

Alex

2013/6/13 Merlijn van Deen <valhallasw@arctus.nl>

Hi Strainu,

On 13 June 2013 17:07, Strainu <strainu10@gmail.com> wrote:

Is there some reason why the Page class does not have a getSize
function, except the fact that it's trivial to obtain it from .get() ?

I don't think there was a specific design decision not to implement it, other than 'no-one ever needed it'. It's also not entirely clear what 'size' means in this context: the number of characters, the number of bytes in a given encoding.

What is the use case where you think it would be useful?

Best,
Merlijn

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