I'd like to propose a new project with the following goals:
- Introduction of a few new database types for MMBase. The one which is most
evidently missing is a date-time field type, which is supported by most
databases, but MMBase offers to store times and dates in integer (or long)
typed fields only, which is a bit silly, and blocks for example the
possibility to delegate a task like 'find the persons who have there
birthday today' to the database (using functions on date-fields).
Are this 3 different things? - a date - a time (interval) - a datatime?
- Deciding how and implementing a generic way for field-specializationsMaybe this guitype is even context related? When we are using the editwizards/editors / the default representation should be different from the default representation for an viewer of the site
('guitype'). Additional value-constraints (enum-types (drop-downs) and
more) must be acquirable for use by editors (also, e.g. by editwizards).
(Additional value-contrains: a search query?)
- Possibly, 'translatable' fields? link to 118n project?- This would be nice a nice feature.
- Also a better sollution for the xml data type?
I think the actual implementation effort to lay a decent infrastructure for
this does not need to be very big, so I think that after consensus about the
way has been reached, this project could be finished quickly.
Maybe define sub projects : - Implementing the new datatypes - Solve the guitype-problem
hoi
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Eduard Witteveen +316 414 789 23
