On 12/22/06, Brett Porter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Sounds good, as long as the store remains independent of them. I don't want to get into the situation like in JIRA where you can't rename a string key.
Yes, jason pinged me on this since I guess I wasn't completely clear in that summary. the project.id and projectGroup.id will basically disappear from continuum, reserved strictly for the underlying store. The store can do whatever it wants with them. The UI will never pass around a projectId=26 param on a url making you wonder what the heck it was. A nice side effect of this IMO is that the #'s in the working directory would go away as well, defaulting instead to a nested directory structure of workingDirectory/GroupKey/ProjectKey/pom.xml Now I had honestly been thinking of making the key's immutable, since the names of the group's and project's are to be used for all presentational type things. I was going to treat keys under the same functional requirements that usernames generally have. Maybe we offer a 'Clone' option that makes a deep copy of the data in the DB into a new name and then allow the deletion of the old one... Anyway, here are the restrictions I thought of placing on the keys. * [a-zA-Z1-9.-:] for all keys * group key is unique * group key + project key is unique * project key should _not_ need to be unique (ex Doxia/Core + Maven/Core + Continuum/Core) * keys are immutable, set upon creation
Before starting to hack on this, perhaps you could list out all the keys you think are needed, and some examples? I'm interested in how it relates to group IDs and artifact IDs in particular.
Initially I was planning on doing just the project key and group key since there is so much involved with getting just those two in place. However everything would probably go that way so that Profiles, Schedules, BuildDefinitions, etc...anything with an int ID that is used around in continuum would be converted to use a strongly typed string key instead....the ones other then project and group are less important in the short term since they are not a constant source of confusion...but eventually yes anything with and ID would get a Key like this. If the branch is a success and is voted back onto trunk then those could take place on trunk I think since they are smaller scope. As for how they would relate to groupId's and artifactId's it was not my intent to deal with those at all. One of the things that got us into the mess that currently exists was too great a focus on the m2 side of continuum. IMO the group and project keys should be kept external to any concept of project type. That way we can always maintain a clear delineation between a group and its member projects in relation to other groups. For instance, one of my goals here is to make it super easy to have multiple versions of Doxia load up in continuum and execute in their little sandboxes. Group Keys of Doxia and Doxia-Refactor (just an example branch) should be able to seamlessly import the doxia project from its relative sources and peacefully coexist. And it should be just as easy to do the same with a number of ant, shell and maven1 projects. Anyway, some foreseeable real world example keys in one continuum instance: Group: Maven-Trunk Projects: Core Api Artfiact Group: Maven-2.0.5 Projects: Core Api Artifact Group: Continuum Projects: Core Api Store Webapp cheers, jesse
- Brett On 22/12/2006, at 6:30 AM, Jesse McConnell wrote: > I am thinking about pulling a short term branch of continuum with > rahul and working on getting everything converted to using a string > based key project and project group reference in all apis and in all > of the UI decision making items. He has tomorrow off so I think that > unless anyone has any big issues with it we'll try and make that > branch and work on it tomorrow. > > the end result of it would be: > > * int id's for project and project group in the model are for internal > store usage > * name's for project and project group are for presentation > purposes only > * key's are for all api usage and passing around un URL's etc. > > some quick benefits are: > > * consistency across all apis and url manipulations > * ability to add quick url rewriting for direct linking of projects > foo.org/Doxia/Core > * common keys across running continuum instances for clustering > > jesse > > -- > jesse mcconnell > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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