Hello,
we have planed to clean up the qx.lang and qx.type namespace. With that clean
up, we intend to move to polyfil as much as possible. That way, we rely on
standardized APIs offered by the browser. So lets get started with
qx.lang.Generics [1]
I would be surprised if a lot of developers know what this class is doing and
also use the features. In short, it takes most of the standard methods of Array
and String, and attaches them as static to the native data type. Here is a
sample of join for Array.
Array.join([1,2,3], "|") // API offered by the class
instead of
[1,2,3].join("|") // native API
We intend to remove the whole class because this is not in the spec as far as I
can see so we don't need to fake that as well.
qx.lang.Core
This class already offers some polyfills. We like to rename the class and
extend it with newer polyfills like Date.toJSON and so on. Additionally, we
intend to remove the "polyfill" for string.quote because its not in the spec.
qx.module.Polyfill
contains some polyfills needed for q. We like to clean up the content of that
class as well.
qx.lang.Array
offers some convenience on top of the native Array methods. But we think thats
a but too much and we like to reduce the feature set of most of the qx.lang
classes. In the array class, we would like to remove the following methods:
toArray: can be replaced with cast
fromCollection: we cant reproduce the bug its fixing
clone: its a simple concat
max: its available in Math
min: its available im Math
sum: easy to implement it yourself if needed
qx.lang.Date
We want to remove the whole class because it only offers one method which is
available on the native Date object as well.
qx.lang.Function
Here, we move / remove the following functions:
bind: will be available on every function as polyfill
empty, returnTrue, returnFalse, returnNull, returnThis, returnZero: will be
removed without replacement
qx.lang.Object
hasMinLength: is a simple check and getLength
getKeys: will be replaced by a polyfill
getKeysAsString: is a simple Object.keys + join
mergeWith, mergeCarefullyWith: can be replaced by merge
select: its a simple map[key] return
toUriParameter: Should be moved to URI or serialization
qx.lang.String
contains: is a simple indexOf
Another part of the cleanup is the qx.type namespace, which contains four
classes. Two of them will be kept the way they are and thats BaseError and
BaseString. Both are in use for e.g. unit testing or localized strings. The
other two classes are BaseArray and Array. BaseArray just offers an Array
including the methods we want to add to the native Array so the whole class is
kind of useless after that. This means, we want to remove the BaseArray. The
Array class offers some of the convenience methods of qx.lang.Array on the
array instance. This is somehow a duplicate of API and thats why we plan to
remove this class as well.
Now its your turn! Do you have any objections on any of the planed removals?
Any hints of what we should / could add as polyfill?
Thanks for your help,
Martin
P.S. By removing I mean deprecating it for the upcoming release and removing it
after the release.
[1] http://demo.qooxdoo.org/current/apiviewer/#qx.lang.Generics
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