> All this leads me to a few questions that I think that we need to > address. > 1) What is a valid TopicName? <- the formatter currently has a > definition, but other parts of the engine don't know or care about it. > > 2) Who owns this information? <- this one is tricky because of the > Formatter's parsing. It has to have some sort of Regex definition it > can use (right now)
I think these two are the same question. I think there needs to be *one* place that defines what a legal TopicName is. I think it should be the TopicName class. After all, if TopicName won't take it, then no one else should. Obviously, the question "what constitutes a legal TopicName?" is different from the question of "what does the Formatter turn into a hyperlink?" So from that standpoint I think two pieces of code are warranted. Probably the Formatter shouldn't create a link to a topic with an illegal name, so one piece of code will likely use the other. > 3) What do we want the behavior to be when the user tries to create an > topic with an invalid name. <-It currently takes the user to the edit > page with the topic text forced to "this is a bad name" and no save > button displayed. That seems reasonable. It might be nicer to put it in a tooltip, though, just to save someone the clickthrough. > 4) what should happen when the user tries to create a "bad" topic > through the web service? An error should be returned. Unfortunately, we have a major backward-compat issue here in terms of, so probably the best we can do is to throw an exception. > 5) Is there a difference between FW behavior in the case of a bad > topic vs. a missing NameSpace? So, the question of what a "missing" namespace is has one subtlety: there's no way to tell the difference between a namespace that doesn't exist and one you have no read access to. That's by design. But I think in general the answer to your question is "yes, there is a difference". I'm not sure I can quantify it, but it seems to me that trying to create a topic with a valid name in a nonexistent namespace is somehow different from trying to create a topic with an invalid name in an existing namespace. But maybe the fact that I can't tell you what the difference is indicates that there really isn't one. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Flexwiki-users mailing list Flexwiki-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flexwiki-users
