I was about to make the same suggestion. We can use “I” for interfaces, “c” for class, “k” for kind, “n” for names. etc.
> On Dec 11, 2018, at 2:52 PM, Frost, Andrew <andrew.fr...@harman.com> wrote: > > Hi > > Not sure that I fully understand this but would a valid compromise be > something where the field name isn't renamed at all automatically, but we > just change it in the JS generation code to be "i" rather than "interfaces", > and update the Language is/as functions to work with this property name? Not > sure whether it would work and I don't know whether the Reflection stuff > would then need to change too, but if this is all in the generated outputs > and/or the framework's own code then it shouldn't be something that the end > user would bother about.. > > thanks > > Andrew > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Alex Harui [mailto:aha...@adobe.com.INVALID] > Sent: 11 December 2018 08:32 > To: dev@royale.apache.org > Subject: [EXTERNAL] ROYALE_CLASS_INFO, renaming, modules, Objects > > I spent some time today trying to get Tour De Flex to run in production mode > with the main app and modules being separately minified. > > I've fixed a few things here and there, but an interesting issue I ran into > has to do with the plain object we use in ROYALE_CLASS_INFO (and will apply > to other objects). > > The ROYALE_CLASS_INFO is generated on each class and has a "names" property > and an optional "interfaces" property. An example is: > > org.apache.royale.html.beads.models.PanelModel.prototype.ROYALE_CLASS_INFO = > { names: [{ name: 'PanelModel', qName: > 'org.apache.royale.html.beads.models.PanelModel', kind: 'class' }], > interfaces: [org.apache.royale.core.IBead, > org.apache.royale.core.IPanelModel] }; > > Because the field names are not quoted, then in most output, the field name > "interfaces" is renamed and all code referencing this field is renamed as > well. This is good because it means that you don't have to download the word > "interfaces" once per-class. Instead of 10 characters, it is usually one or > two. 100 classes saves you about 900 bytes. > > However, it turns out that in Tour De Flex, the main app uses Reflection and > Reflection uses a quoted 'interfaces' string and thus, the field name > 'interfaces' in ROYALE_CLASS_INFO isn't renamed, but in most modules > "interfaces" is renamed since no other code in the module has a quoted string > for 'interfaces'. But that means that when a module loads, the > Language.is/as won't work since classes in the main app are using > "interfaces" but the classes in the module are using some short name. > > One solution is to always quote that field in the compiler output and > Language is/as so it doesn't get renamed, but that means that field will > never get renamed and you lose saving those bytes. > > Another is let folks figure out their own workarounds, by adding some code > that will prevent the renaming in the modules. > > Other ideas are welcome. I'm done for tonight. > > Thoughts? > -Alex >
