Hi all,
As part of the stabilization work on CForms, there are a couple of
changes I'd like to do on the naming-related methods of the Widget
interface.
Today we have:
- getId() which returns the local name of widget.
- getRequestParameterName() which returns the combination of the parent
widgdet's requestParameterName with the local name.
Working with advanced templates and Ajax stuff, I find these names
increasingly annoying and confusing:
- each widget produces an HTML element with an "id" attribute filled
with getRequestParameterName(), and not getId()!
- this getRequestParameterName is really tooooo long to type, especially
in templates where we have no IDE autocompletion.
Ideally, I'd like to do the following renaming:
- getId() --> getName()
- getRequestParameterName() --> getId()
But since the meaning of getId() changes, this is likely to cause weird
things in existing code.
So I propose the following:
- getId() --> getName()
- getRequestParameterName() --> getFullId()
- deprecate and remove later getId() and getRequestParameterName().
Once getId() will have been removed for some time, we'll be able to
reintroduce it as an equivalent to getFullId().
WDYT?
Sylvain
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Sylvain Wallez Anyware Technologies
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