On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 9:29 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.
In the list above my preferences goes to 2) but we've been using the term Class for years and I'm afraid we'd be mixing ObjectDefinition/Class everywhere. It seems safer to me, even if it's not perfect for the reasons mentioned in the thread, to go for: WikiEntity, SpaceEntity, DocumentEntity, ObjectEntity, ClassEntity JV.