On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 21:55, Anca Luca <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I would like to go ahead with committing > http://jira.xwiki.org/jira/browse/XWIKI-4775 before the 2.2 final release > (because I would like annotations to work as clean as possible on 2.2 final). > > In order to do that, we need to agree on a set of separators for the object > name > and property name. > There have been the following proposals so far: > > A wiki:Space.Page^objectName#property > B wiki:Space.Page^objectName$property > > which has received some votes in http://markmail.org/thread/uihq4mmwgaufbcz6 > but > I personally would stay away from # and $ separators since they're reserved > characters in velocity scripting language and it might be uncomfortable for > using refs in scripts.
+1, i would prefer we stay away of velocity keywords > > Also, we had: > > C wiki:Space.Page^objectName;property +0.5, ; look weird to me (no better argument) > > and also: > > D wiki:Space.Page:objectName.property -1, too hard to read for user and know what is wiki name, object etc. another proposal: E wiki:Space.Page^objectName^property > > Which one would you prefer? Any other proposals? And you ? ;) > > Any separator should be easy to implement, and roughly anything could be used > as > a separator (so feel free to propose). > > Note that there is an alternative to this, to make annotations implementable > on > 2.2: only add the two entity types (Object and Object Property) along with > making the string serializer and string resolver extensible so one could add > its > own separators for the 2 new types. Object and Object Property are standard entity and should be supported by default anyway. If you implement it with some separators in annotation and separator chosen for standard are not the same it will be a pain to get rid of your custom code in annotation. > > WDYT? > > Thanks, > Anca > _______________________________________________ > devs mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs > -- Thomas Mortagne _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
