Alec Flett wrote:
Perhaps this is more obvious than I'm realizing, but am I understanding this correctly?
blockName refers to the name of the block in the tree of blocks created for the UI. It doesn't necessarily have to be unique across the entire tree but things seem to behave better if it is.
We will be modifying blockName to make it unique soon.
itsName is the unique name that allows the parcel loader (and the repository?) to identify Items.
Yes. When an item is copied to the soup itsName changes to it's UUID which makes finding thing by itsName problematic.
A question I have is, is blockName required? Is there an easy way to make blockName just refer to itsName if it isn't specified? As a new developer, I'm finding the syntax to be rather verbose and tedious, it sure would be nice if I could skip things like blockName if it isn't required.
blockNames are only required if you need to refer to a block by name which is rarely necessary. It occurs when you want to post a "named" event and when you want to send an event to a block by "name".
I completely agree that the syntax is way verbose and tedious. Lisa's addressing proposal precludes using repository paths, which use itsName, so for all practical purposes I only use itsName as a way to refer to item between parcels in parcel XML.
Alec
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