David E. Jones wrote:

Here are my previous comments about it earlier on the mailing list:

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This isn't a universal policy or anything, but I'd say for something minor like this there isn't a problem with hard-coding it.

The whole point of the ID generation is to make the IDs unique. In the UI you can specify an ID instead of using the default, so it only matters so much.
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In general if this sort of thing were to be configurable, would we really want it in a properties file? I'd say no, especially since one of the new objectives that has been discussed recently is to make it easy to configure things, make things configurable more granularly, and make it easier to use different seed data files for OOTB industry-specific configurations.

What to do...

-David


On Jan 19, 2007, at 8:59 PM, Scott Gray wrote:

Hi

I actually said that we should do it if anyone had objections, but no one did so that's why it went in as is. But yeah if over-running the limit is a possibility then it should probably be changed. Perhaps there should be some code in there anyway for coping with that situation, if someones running that many features saving 1 character might not be much of a bonus.

Regards
Scott

Jacopo Cappellato wrote:
I agree with Si.

Jacopo

Si Chen wrote:
Hey there -

This patch is a good idea, but I think Scott Gray suggested that this "-" could be configured in a properties file, and I think that's a good idea. Otherwise, if you have four or five features you will easily overrun the 20-character productId key limit. Keeping it in properties file is a good way to allow it to be modified. Otherwise it's not very nice to have to go into the code to do it.

Jonathon, you up for doing this and sending in another patch?

Si

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Subject:
svn commit: r495891 - /ofbiz/trunk/applications/product/src/org/ofbiz/product/feature/ProductFeatureServices.java
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Author: jleroux
Date: Sat Jan 13 04:48:55 2007
New Revision: 495891

URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=rev&rev=495891
Log:
A patch from Jonathon Wong "Prepend feature idCodes with '-'" (https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-620)

Modified:
ofbiz/trunk/applications/product/src/org/ofbiz/product/feature/ProductFeatureServices.java

Modified: ofbiz/trunk/applications/product/src/org/ofbiz/product/feature/ProductFeatureServices.java URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/ofbiz/trunk/applications/product/src/org/ofbiz/product/feature/ProductFeatureServices.java?view=diff&rev=495891&r1=495890&r2=495891 ============================================================================== --- ofbiz/trunk/applications/product/src/org/ofbiz/product/feature/ProductFeatureServices.java (original) +++ ofbiz/trunk/applications/product/src/org/ofbiz/product/feature/ProductFeatureServices.java Sat Jan 13 04:48:55 2007
@@ -227,7 +227,7 @@
                                List newFeatures = new LinkedList();
                                List newFeatureIds = new LinkedList();
if (currentFeature.getString("idCode") != null) - newCombination.put("defaultVariantProductId", productId + currentFeature.getString("idCode")); + newCombination.put("defaultVariantProductId", productId + "-" + currentFeature.getString("idCode"));
                             else
newCombination.put("defaultVariantProductId", productId);
                             newFeatures.add(currentFeature);







David,

Unfortunately I find this to be somewhat unsatisfactory for two reasons:

1. Any potential problem when present should be addressed or at least considered. This bit of code possibly adds a trivial enhancement in the eyes of some users but definitely potential for bugs in the case of other users.

2. While it is true that somebody can just correct those on the data entry screen, the fact that this is at the service level rather than just on the screen in a .bsh file means that somebody else might be relying on this service to do things in a way that cannot be corrected on a screen. To the extent the service layer offers a set of APIs in the form of services, such services should work without resorting to corrections in the view layer. One of my favorite things about OFBIZ is the separation of the layers.

Still, I agree with you--let's not have a long discussion about small things like this. If I find problems with it down the road with this code I'll fix them myself in a way that's acceptable to all.

Si

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