On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 10:29 AM, Vincent Massol <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi devs,
>
> As you may have seen, I've been working on the new model in a branch.
>
> We need to decide on the naming of the Entity classes (wiki, space, document, 
> object, object definition, etc).
>
> We have several possibilities I know of for naming them:
>
> 1) Wiki, Space, Document, Object, ObjectDefinition
> 2) WikiEntity, SpaceEntity, DocumentEntity, ObjectDefinitionEntity
> 3) Wiki, Space, Document, XObject, XObjectDefinition (or simply 
> ObjectDefinition)
> 4) XWiki, XSpace, XDocument, XObject, XObjectDefinition
> 5) Some other name for objects.
>
> Some concerns:
> * Using Object as in 1) is a bit of a pain since there's java.lang.Object 
> which forces to use the FQN name when coding in Java. Which is why I've put 
> proposals 2) and 3)
> * In proposal 3) there's a bit of an inconsistency with the X in XObject 
> which is not present in the other entity names, hence proposal 4 and 2)
> * In proposal 1) there can be some other clashes. For example Document can 
> clash with the DOM Document object
>
> My personal vote goes to 2), even though it makes the entity names a bit 
> longer.
>
> Cast your votes!

+0.5 for 2) (maybe with ClassEntity as suggested by Denis). I don't
like the rest.

Thanks,
Marius

>
> Thanks
> -Vincent
>
>
>
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