Andrew did you test it on a device? Don't think "hey guys can you test my
changes" is a sustainable approach

On 2/20/13 12:19 PM, "Andrew Grieve" <agri...@chromium.org> wrote:

>Okay, I've interpreted the silence as a "just go ahead and merge it and
>people will complain if it's broken".
>
>Seeing as we've now cut the next branch, I figured it was a good time to
>merge these remaining changes in. So, I did. Please let me know if symbols
>aren't working.
>
>
>On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 2:39 PM, Andrew Grieve <agri...@chromium.org>
>wrote:
>
>> I've just merged in most of the changes for this (CB-2227). Again, the
>> goal here was to move all plugin-specific logic out of common files.
>>It's
>> not the end-game solution, but a step in the right direction.
>>
>> There are still some changes left on the symbolmapping branch that
>>affect
>> windows & webos. If there's someone who knows how, it would be great if
>>you
>> could try merging in the branch and ensure mobile-spec is still working
>> with the changes. If so, these changes can also be merged into master.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 3:38 PM, Andrew Grieve
>><agri...@chromium.org>wrote:
>>
>>> This is now finished in the branch. There is now *no* plugin logic left
>>> in common.js, nor in any platform.js files.
>>>
>>>
>>> 
>>>https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf?p=cordova-js.git;a=shortlog;h=re
>>>fs/heads/symbolmapping
>>>
>>> There is one exception, and that's things like the "app" plugin, where
>>> it's not really a plugin that a platform can live without.
>>>
>>> Changes of interest:
>>> 1. In tests, I've added helpers for stubbing out modules & for stubbing
>>> out properties. I used this to be able to undo symbol mapping within
>>>tests.
>>>
>>> var propertyreplacer = require('cordova/propertyreplacer');
>>> propertyreplacer.stub(platform, 'id', 'test');
>>>
>>> var modulereplacer = require('cordova/modulereplacer');
>>> modulereplacer.replace('cordova/platform', {id:'test',
>>> initialize:createSpy()});
>>>
>>> 2. Loading plugins by name (aka, looping through all defined modules
>>>and
>>> loading the ones that have names that match a pattern).
>>> A) "symbols" Modules that have the name "symbols" are loaded to define
>>> their plugin's module->JS symbol mappings (merges/clobbers/defaults).
>>>On
>>> Blackberry, sub-platform symbol files are called "bbsymbols".
>>> B) "plugininit" Modules that have the name "plugininit" are loaded to
>>> perform any custom start-up logic.
>>> C) "*Proxy" On Windows8, modules that end with "Proxy" are loaded on
>>> start-up.
>>>
>>> I don't love the looping-through-module-names approach, but thought it
>>> was a good initial solution while we talk about better ideas. To do
>>>this, I
>>> had to make the moduleMap exported, which it wasn't before. Certainly
>>> interested to hear if this is a really bad idea, and what alternatives
>>>we
>>> could use going forward.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 12:45 PM, Andrew Grieve
>>><agri...@chromium.org>wrote:
>>>
>>>> Pushed up the change with the File plugin being registered in this new
>>>> way. Please let me know if you have concerns about it, since the next
>>>>step
>>>> is moving over other plugin APIs, which is boring work :P.
>>>>
>>>> Also, let's move any discussion into the JIRA issue:
>>>> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-2227
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 4:35 PM, Andrew Grieve
>>>><agri...@chromium.org>wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Branch started!
>>>>>
>>>>> I've completed steps 1 & 2.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> 
>>>>>https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf?p=cordova-js.git;a=shortlog;h=
>>>>>refs/heads/symbolmapping
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 1:39 PM, Filip Maj <f...@adobe.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> This all seems reasonable. Shall we start a branch?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 1/15/13 2:47 PM, "Andrew Grieve" <agri...@google.com> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> >Sorry to dump another large email on the list, but I'm hoping this
>>>>>> one is
>>>>>> >at least less controversial :). I wrote up a plan for moving
>>>>>> >module->symbol
>>>>>> >mapping out of common.js & platform.js and into individual plugins.
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> >If you have feedback/comments, let me know.
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> >* Goals:
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> >   - Change from listing module->symbol mapping within common.js &
>>>>>> >   platform.js, to listing this within the plugins themselves.
>>>>>> >   - Support apps that don't want us to clobber global symbols.
>>>>>> >      - aka, allow module->symbol mapping to be turned off
>>>>>> >   - Allow retrieval of clobbered globals
>>>>>> >      - Currently modules save it themselves when they are loaded
>>>>>> >      - This won't work (reliably) for saving references to globals
>>>>>> >      overridden by other modules
>>>>>> >      - This gets in the way of the idea of lazy-loading modules
>>>>>>via
>>>>>> >getters
>>>>>> >   - Support the use of other module loaders
>>>>>> >      - So... don't do crazy things at require() time.
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> >Requirements:
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> >   - Plugins must be able to declare dependencies
>>>>>> >   - Plugins must be able to delay onDeviceReady()
>>>>>> >   - Plugins must be able to run code to initialize
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> >Implementation modulemapper.js:
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> >   - clobbers(...)
>>>>>> >   - merges(...)
>>>>>> >   - defaults(...)
>>>>>> >   - mapModules(wnd)
>>>>>> >   - getOriginalSymbol('FileSystem')
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> >Start-up flow:
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> >   1. Parse all modules
>>>>>> >   2. common-bootstrap:
>>>>>> >      1. Loads list of modules named "cordova.*/symbols"
>>>>>> >      2. Run modulemapper.mapModules(window);
>>>>>> >      3. Loads list of modules named "cordova.*/main"
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> >symbols.js files:
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> >   - Will make calls to modulemapper instead of exporting
>>>>>>{clobbers:}
>>>>>> >      - This make dependencies work by require()ing dependent
>>>>>>symbols
>>>>>> >   - We want the to be an evaluated .js file instead of something
>>>>>> listed
>>>>>> >in
>>>>>> >   plugin.xml
>>>>>> >      - So that it can export based on browser version
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> >Implementation Steps
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> >   1. Expose list of registered modules in scripts/require.js so
>>>>>>that
>>>>>> we
>>>>>> >   can loop over them
>>>>>> >   2. Write modulemapper.js (and have unit tests, of course)
>>>>>> >   3. Add logic to bootstrap.js that calls into modulemapper
>>>>>> >   4. create $PLUGIN_NAME/symbols.js files for each plugin within
>>>>>> cordova.
>>>>>> >   5. Add logic to bootstrap.js that calls into modulemapper
>>>>>> >   6. Create main.js files for those that currently have logic in
>>>>>> their
>>>>>> >   platform.js files
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> >*
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>

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