[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SIS-81?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=16528705#comment-16528705 ]
Martin Desruisseaux commented on SIS-81: ---------------------------------------- Re-open as a side-effect of the work in {{MetadataVisitor}}. We may not provide an {{APPENDABLE}} enumeration, but another enumeration that may be useful could be {{STAGED}}. That annotation would be set by the user and treated in the same way than {{EDITABLE}}, except that setting a metadata to that state automatically set all children to that state too (if they are not {{FINAL}}), and modifying a staged metadata automatically put it back in {{EDITABLE}} mode. The intent is for allowing users to mark which metadata are ready for publication, pending a last review. Note: we will probably not do that for SIS 1.0. For now, we will put only {{EDITABLE}} and {{FINAL}} enumeration values. But we use this JIRA task for recording ideas like {{STAGED}}. > Replace ModifiableMetadata.isModifiable() by an enum > ---------------------------------------------------- > > Key: SIS-81 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SIS-81 > Project: Spatial Information Systems > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: Metadata > Affects Versions: 0.3, 0.4, 0.5, 0.6, 0.7, 0.8 > Reporter: Martin Desruisseaux > Assignee: Martin Desruisseaux > Priority: Major > Fix For: 1.0 > > > The {{ModifiableMetadata}} abstract class provides a {{isModifiable()}} > method which currently returns a {{boolean}} value. The boolean value should > be replaced by an enumeration containing the following values (for now): > * {{EDITABLE}} > * {{APPENDABLE}} > * {{FINAL}} > The new functionality is the {{APPENDABLE}} value, which would be like > {{EDITABLE}} except that only new values could be set; an exception would be > thrown on attempt to modify an existing value. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v7.6.3#76005)