+1 Jerome
On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 8:53 PM, Sergiu Dumitriu <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi devs, > > In the early days of XWiki, XClass definitions were stored in the > database exploded into several tables, as object-relational mapping of > the BaseClass and the related PropertyClasses. That code still exists, > and can be enabled in the configuration. > > The alternative, which has been used as the default even before 1.0, is > to store the class as an XML blob, since it doesn't make much sense to > have the class definition available in the database as objects. > > Since the default has been to store the classes as XML, the old code > hasn't been tested in years, and I'm not even sure it still works. I'd > like to remove that code completely. This involves: > > - pruning several methods and if-else branches from XWikiHibernateStore > - removing several class mappings, thus tables from the database (we're > not going to actually delete existing tables, just that they won't be > created in new installations) > > WDYT? Is anybody actually relying on this feature? > > My +1 to proceed with this cleanup. > -- > Sergiu Dumitriu > http://purl.org/net/sergiu/ > _______________________________________________ > devs mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs > _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
