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 > 2) WikiEntity, SpaceEntity, DocumentEntity, ObjectDefinitionEntity > 3) Wiki, Space, Document, XObject, XObjectDefinition (or simply > ObjectDefinition) > 4) XWiki, XSpace, XDocument, XObject, XObjectDefinition > 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. >
In the list above my preferences goes to 2) but we've been using the term Class for years and I'm afraid we'd be mixing ObjectDefinition/Class everywhere. It seems safer to me, even if it's not perfect for the reasons mentioned in the thread, to go for: WikiEntity, SpaceEntity, DocumentEntity, ObjectEntity, ClassEntity JV. _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
