Optionally use the name field only for new nodes, and avoid back-renaming.
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Key: MGNLDATA-131
URL: http://jira.magnolia-cms.com/browse/MGNLDATA-131
Project: Magnolia Data Module
Issue Type: Improvement
Affects Versions: 1.6.3
Reporter: Danilo Ghirardelli
Assignee: Philipp Bärfuss
Priority: Major
The patch for MGNLDATA-130 opened a few other logical problems: in the code of
GenericDataAdminTree, if the node is renamed, the dialog "nameField" property
is read and the corresponding property is set with the new node name, or worse,
a new "name" property is created with the new node name, even if it was not
present in the beginning.
This is not always the desired behaviour, because the name used in the tree may
have spaces and special characters removed, but the node data inside the node
can have spaces and special characters.
Logically speaking, I may want a field that is strongly coupled with node name,
which is the current intention of the code, so whether I edit it in the tree or
in a dialog it stays synchronized on both sides. And in this case we should
alter the data save handler to write the name field just like the name used in
the tree (spaces and special chars removed/escaped), to be perfectly consistent.
On the other side I may simply want a name field that is just used once to give
a reasonable name to new nodes, just to avoid the 0, 00, 01, etc which usually
have no meaning for the end user. This value should be used either once at
creation or each time that value change, but only in the nodeData->name
direction and never in the opposite one.
What do you think? I'm asking something too complex? I'd do this adding a
"oneWayNameField" boolean in the dialog configuration, making
GenericDataAdminTree check also for this before renaming, and making
saveHandler check for this when saving the node, and changing the name value
accordingly (leaving as is or using the tree name also for the node data value).
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