[xwiki-devs] [VOTE][Model] Do we need to change Entity Reference Factory to some other name? And which one?

Hi, This is the current interface: public interface EntityReferenceFactory<T> { /** * @param entityReferenceRepresentation the representation of an entity reference (eg as a String) * @param type the type of the Entity (Document, Space, Attachment, Wiki, etc) to extract from the source * @return the resolved reference as an Object */ EntityReference createEntityReference(T entityReferenceRepresentation, EntityType type); } Now we have 2 different implementations: - one for which T = String - one for which T = EntityReference (our normalizer) In term of usage this means: EntityReference ref = factory.createEntityReference("wiki:space.page", EntityType.DOCUMENT); EntityReference ref = factory.createEntityReference(documentReference, EntityType.DOCUMENT); The last example is used to normalize the passed reference, convert it into the type specified by the second parameter, filling the blanks. I feel that Factory is no longer an appropriate name, especially for the second use case. WDYT? IMO a better name would be Resolver, Normalizer, or Converter. Any other better name? (I haven't put Parser since I don't believe it's correct). Examples: EntityReference ref = resolver.resolve("wiki:space.page", EntityType.DOCUMENT); EntityReference ref = resolver.resolve(documentReference, EntityType.DOCUMENT); EntityReference ref = normalizer.normalize("wiki:space.page", EntityType.DOCUMENT); EntityReference ref = normalizer.normalize(documentReference, EntityType.DOCUMENT); EntityReference ref = converter.convert("wiki:space.page", EntityType.DOCUMENT); EntityReference ref = converter.convert(documentReference, EntityType.DOCUMENT); It's quite a lot of work to change what I have put but since this is an important API we need to be sure of what we want since we won't be able to change it later on. I'm +1 for Resolver. WDYT? Thanks -Vincent