Hi Vitaliy,
I agree with you here. I don't think backwards compatibility is a
compelling reason to keep the property-name-dictates-type feature. I don't
believe there are that many wikis that have such a property defined without
an associated type - and conversely, we know of a few wikis where this
feature has caused problems, that have, for example, a property named
"Telephone number" of type String or Text. I think it makes a lot of sense
to just toss this feature out entirely - it will cause some short-term pain
for a few admins, but in the long term it will simplify both the code base
and the usage of SMW.
-Yaron
On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 10:14 AM, <vita...@yourcmc.ru> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> It seems the discussion in https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/84744/ is
> slowed down, so maybe we'll discuss it here?
>
> The full history is that I've recently discovered a strange SMW
> behavior - type-named properties with enforced type. I.e. property named
> "email" ALWAYS has email type, and you cannot override it. Markus said
> it was done for some sort of backwards compatibility (details are in
> gerrit), and I think it's an unevident behaviour, so I still think it
> should be disabled...
>
> To not break things with disabling this "feature" I suggest creating a
> maintenance script (run as part of update.php) which will look for usage
> of type-named properties and create them with [[has type::<name>]] if
> they're really used.
>
> What do you (SMW developers), and this mailing list subscribers in
> general, think about it?
>
> --
> With best regards,
> Vitaliy Filippov
>
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