Hi Edmore,

I'm forwarding this to the Matterhorn developers list as this is development 
related. At least some developers are not on the users list.

Rüdiger

Edmore Moyo <[email protected]> schrieb:

>
>Good day, 
>
>I am working on this jira : 
>
>http://opencast.jira.com/browse/MH-7135?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel#issue-tabs
>
>
>Is there a coding style that I can refer to? I am rather new to the
>community so I went through some of the code first to see the general
>coding style. For example with the engage-ui.js code and all other
>engage code that I looked at, the style is as follows: 
>
>Opencast.engage = (function () 
>{ 
>    var loadProgressPercent = -1; 
>
>    /** 
>     * @memberOf Opencast.engage 
>     * @description Gets player type ("watch" or "embed") 
>     * @return the player type 
>     */ 
>    function getPlayerType() 
>    { 
>        var pathname = window.location.pathname; 
>        return pathname; 
>    } 
>
>    /** 
>     * @memberOf Opencast.engage 
>     * @description Gets the url to the search service; 
>     * @return the search service endpoint url 
>     */ 
>    function getSearchServiceEpisodeIdURL() 
>    { 
>        var restEndpoint = "../../search/episode.xml?id="; //
>Production 
>        //var restEndpoint = "xml/episode.xml?id="; // Activate for
>testing purposes 
>        //var restEndpoint = "episode-segments.xml?id="; // Activate
>for testing purposes 
>        return restEndpoint; 
>    } 
>
>    function getSearchServiceEpisodeJsonURL() 
>    { 
>        var restEndpoint = "../../search/episode.json"; // Production 
>        return restEndpoint; 
>    } 
>
>    /** 
>     * @memberOf Opencast.engage 
>     * @description Gets the current load progress 
>     * @return The current load progress 
>     */ 
>    function getLoadProgress() 
>    { 
>        if (loadProgressPercent === -1) return -1; 
>        else 
>        { 
>            var duration = Opencast.Player.getDuration(); 
>            return duration * loadProgressPercent / 100; 
>        } 
>    } 
>
>    /** 
>     * @memberOf Opencast.engage 
>     * @description Sets the current load progress 
>     * @param The current load progress 
>     */ 
>    function setLoadProgressPercent(value) 
>    { 
>        if (0 <= value && value <= 100) 
>        { 
>            loadProgressPercent = value; 
>        } 
>    } 
>
>    /** 
>     * @memberOf Opencast.engage 
>     * @description Returns a specific Cookie 
>     * @param name Name of the Cookie to return 
>     * @return a specific Cookie with the Name 'name' 
>     */ 
>    function getCookie(name) 
>    { 
>        var start = document.cookie.indexOf(name + "="); 
>        var len = start + name.length + 1; 
>        if ((!start) && (name != document.cookie.substring(0,
>name.length))) 
>        { 
>            return null; 
>        } 
>        if (start == -1) return null; 
>        var end = document.cookie.indexOf(';', len); 
>        if (end == -1) end = document.cookie.length; 
>        return unescape(document.cookie.substring(len, end)); 
>    } 
>
>    return { 
>        getCookie: getCookie, 
>        getPlayerType: getPlayerType, 
>        getLoadProgress: getLoadProgress, 
>        setLoadProgressPercent: setLoadProgressPercent, 
>        getSearchServiceEpisodeIdURL: getSearchServiceEpisodeIdURL, 
>        getSearchServiceEpisodeJsonURL: getSearchServiceEpisodeJsonURL
>
>    }; 
>}()); 
>
>Functions are defined at the top and then an object literal is returned
>at the end with all the members. Although this code works fine is there
>a reason why we are not implementing it as follows: 
>
>Opencast.engage = (function () 
>{ 
>    var loadProgressPercent = -1, 
>        that = {}; 
>
>    /** 
>     * @memberOf Opencast.engage 
>     * @description Gets player type ("watch" or "embed") 
>     * @return the player type 
>     */ 
>    that.getPlayerType = function(){ 
>        var pathname = window.location.pathname; 
>        return pathname; 
>    }; 
>
>    /** 
>     * @memberOf Opencast.engage 
>     * @description Gets the url to the search service; 
>     * @return the search service endpoint url 
>     */ 
>    that.getSearchServiceEpisodeIdURL = function(){ 
>        var restEndpoint = "../../search/episode.xml?id="; //
>Production 
>        //var restEndpoint = "xml/episode.xml?id="; // Activate for
>testing purposes 
>        //var restEndpoint = "episode-segments.xml?id="; // Activate
>for testing purposes 
>        return restEndpoint; 
>    }; 
>
>    that.getSearchServiceEpisodeJsonURL = function(){ 
>        var restEndpoint = "../../search/episode.json"; // Production 
>        return restEndpoint; 
>    }; 
>
>    /** 
>     * @memberOf Opencast.engage 
>     * @description Gets the current load progress 
>     * @return The current load progress 
>     */ 
>    that.getLoadProgress = function(){ 
>        if (loadProgressPercent === -1) return -1; 
>        else 
>        { 
>            var duration = Opencast.Player.getDuration(); 
>            return duration * loadProgressPercent / 100; 
>        } 
>    }; 
>
>    /** 
>     * @memberOf Opencast.engage 
>     * @description Sets the current load progress 
>     * @param The current load progress 
>     */ 
>    that.setLoadProgressPercent = function(value){ 
>        if (0 <= value && value <= 100) 
>        { 
>            loadProgressPercent = value; 
>        } 
>    }; 
>
>    /** 
>     * @memberOf Opencast.engage 
>     * @description Returns a specific Cookie 
>     * @param name Name of the Cookie to return 
>     * @return a specific Cookie with the Name 'name' 
>     */ 
>    that.getCookie = function(name){ 
>        var start = document.cookie.indexOf(name + "="); 
>        var len = start + name.length + 1; 
>        if ((!start) && (name != document.cookie.substring(0,
>name.length))) 
>        { 
>            return null; 
>        } 
>        if (start == -1) return null; 
>        var end = document.cookie.indexOf(';', len); 
>        if (end == -1) end = document.cookie.length; 
>        return unescape(document.cookie.substring(len, end)); 
>    }; 
>
>    return that; 
>}()); 
>
>It would inevitably result in the same thing but could be slightly
>cleaner and with less code, especially if an object has many members. I
>ask because I would like to implement MH-7135 in a style that is
>acceptable to the rest of the community. Kindly advise. 
>
>Regards,  
>
>Edmore Moyo 
>UCT 
>
>  
>
>
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