On 12/10/12 04:03, Victor Vasiliev wrote: > I think instead of using individual constant, we should finally > introduce a Capabilities class. > > It should have a single static method, has(), which indicates whether > a certain capability is registered within the system. At the > beginning, capabilities will be listed as static members of that > class, but we may do something more clever at the future. > > I would also suggest that we introduce a policy of adding a capability > for any new hook we add. Or we could parse docs/hooks.txt in order to > avoid duplication (probably moving it somewhere). > > Finally, backporting that interface into previous versions of > MediaWiki might be a good idea.
Then you would have to load a capability map with potentially hundreds of entries at registration time, despite the fact that on most requests, most of the hooks will never be called. It seems inefficient to me. At least with the current system, the number of support constants is small (4-5). -- Tim Starling _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
