On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 18:53, Vincent Massol <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi devs, > > This is a bit technical but after brainstorming with Thomas we came to the > conclusion that in order to implement "generic marker" support the best > solution would be to add the notion of original blocks to the Block interface > itself. > > This will results in 2 things: > * adding new begin/endOriginalBlocks events (in Listener.java) > * adding a CollectionBlock that is a non content block used simply to group > together one or several blocks. We'll need it in the following use case: when > a single block is replaced with several blocks, we'll need to wrap the > several blocks in a CollectionBlock that has an originalBlocks field set to > the previous single block. It's also needed in some other use cases, for > example when a block is replaced by a leaf block (non father block), we need > a wrapper block to group together begin/endOriginal blocks and the new block > events. > > In summary the idea is to not require a new generic marker block and instead > set the notion of original block in the Block interface itself.
Note: another way to see it is that we add history concept to each block to be able to come back from any result to the original state. > > WDYT? > > Thanks > -Vincent > > _______________________________________________ > devs mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs > -- Thomas Mortagne _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
