Hi,
I'm tentatively in favor of adding Validator as a requirement to SMW, given
all the benefits it would provide - then it could be used by all the
SMW-based extensions, as well.
The better option would be if the Validator functionality could be included
directly in MediaWiki, though who knows whether that will ever happen. (For
those of you who don't follow the wikitech-l mailing list, Jeroen has sent a
few emails to the list asking about adding it into MediaWiki core, and,
though the emails generated some discussions, no one ever responded to the
basic question.)
Is it worth giving it another chance at the MediaWiki "Hackathon" in Berlin
in May, though, assuming you're going to that? Perhaps in person people will
be less likely to just ignore the issue? It's only two months away, so maybe
it's worth waiting.
-Yaron
On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 2:34 PM, Jeroen De Dauw <jeroended...@gmail.com>wrote:
> Hey,
>
>
> > Before we approach this from scratch
>
> Well, since Validator already exists (and IMO has proven very well how
> useful it is in some of my extensions), it's only building the second half
> of the bridge, not staring from scratch.
>
>
> > Would it make sense for SMW to use Validator?
>
> I'd not be suggesting it if I did not think this was the case :) The only
> real pain is the b/c (all extensions with query printers will have to be
> modified to work with such a new SMW) and the introduced dependency.
> Although I've not heard anyone complain about the later for any of my
> extensions (for over a year), as you can simply bundle Validator with any
> extension that required it in releases.
>
>
> > Could this also simplify our code?
>
> The biggest win in simplification of existing code would probably be in the
> query printers. Also, making the query printers and non-ask parser hooks use
> Validator would add a bunch of stuff such as the earlier mentioned
> auto-documentation and error feedback for users basically for free, without
> adding any complexity to SMW whatsoever (as SMW will just define what the
> parameters are, and Validator can figure out for itself how to do things
> with them).
>
>
> Cheers
>
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