On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 9:29 AM, Vincent Massol <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi devs, > > As you may have seen, I've been working on the new model in a branch. > > We need to decide on the naming of the Entity classes (wiki, space, document, > object, object definition, etc). > > We have several possibilities I know of for naming them: > > 1) Wiki, Space, Document, Object, ObjectDefinition
-1, Object is a pain to work with and Document has many possible collisions too even if no java.lang in this case > 2) WikiEntity, SpaceEntity, DocumentEntity, ObjectDefinitionEntity +1 > 3) Wiki, Space, Document, XObject, XObjectDefinition (or simply > ObjectDefinition) -1, It's inconsistent > 4) XWiki, XSpace, XDocument, XObject, XObjectDefinition -1, "XWiki" as class name to indicate one wiki is very confusing > 5) Some other name for objects. > > Some concerns: > * Using Object as in 1) is a bit of a pain since there's java.lang.Object > which forces to use the FQN name when coding in Java. Which is why I've put > proposals 2) and 3) > * In proposal 3) there's a bit of an inconsistency with the X in XObject > which is not present in the other entity names, hence proposal 4 and 2) > * In proposal 1) there can be some other clashes. For example Document can > clash with the DOM Document object > > My personal vote goes to 2), even though it makes the entity names a bit > longer. > > Cast your votes! > > 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
