On May 6, 2009, at 12:34 PM, Thomas Mortagne wrote:

> Hi devs,
>
> The real full qualified name of a document is wiki:Space.Page. I think
> we sould always use only this form for technical purposes like storing
> in database or old API which does not support DocumentName.
>
> pros:
> - don't need to take care of the context, the information is always  
> right.
> - if everything is stored in only one form it's way easier to compare
> things and do requests
>
> cons:
> - old code which does not support this document name form will fail.
> This could hardly be a good arguments since this form is a officially
> valid document name but i can't see anything else.
>
> Among others, the last use case which make me send this proposal is
> http://jira.xwiki.org/jira/browse/XWIKI-3754. IMO getLinkedPages
> return and the link table should only contains fully qualified links,
> especially since theses lists are supposed to contains uniques
> documents and we need to know the 3 parts of the document name to make
> sure of that . Note that a document could contain a link to a document
> in another wiki or even a link to the same document but written in its
> full form so a code which support only local form is wrong anyway.
>
> WDYT ?
>
> Here is my +1. The pros are basically the same that make us introduce
> DocumentName to not manipulate String anymore in code.

+1 to do this in 2.0 time frame since 1.9 is going to be in RC mode  
tomorrow.

Thanks
-Vincent

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