Re: [xwiki-devs] [vote] Object property references separators

Hi devs, I would so much like to commit XWIKI-4775, at least in 2.3. So, we for the separators, so far we have: 1/ wiki:Space.Page^objectName#property 1 +1 (I recorded Vincent here), 1 -0.5, 1 -1 2/ wiki:Space.Page:objectName.property 1 -1, 1 +1 3/ wiki:Space.Page^objectName;property 1 +0.5, my +1 which I will change now 4/ wiki:Space.Page^objectName.property 2 +1 5/ wiki:Space.Page^objectName^property 1 +1 My +1 goes for 4/ which I will commit soon if nobody has anything against it. Re-explanation of the thing: As a result of the discussion at http://markmail.org/thread/uj34lvnjgrnlf6vm and some other live discussion, we concluded that we would implement the objects and object properties references _as if_ every entity had a free name (unique, human readable string name to identify it among all other entities of the same type in the same context). However, for the moment we don't have a good approach for how _exactly_ to name objects, so we won't implement a specific way to name them, we'd have the support for generic object references but not the names themselves, which would be the responsibility of the application _actually_ using the object references (none in core, ftm, only annotations on sandbox). To get a flavour about how this would happen at this point, take a look at the way IndexedObjectReference [1] in the annotation references module extends the ObjectReference[2] in the patched model, to implement a specific way of naming. Now, in order to actually commit XWIKI-4775, the support for generic object references (with unspecified name), we need to agree on a separator, which would be harder to change afterwards, when we decide on the actual name. [1] http://svn.xwiki.org/svnroot/xwiki/contrib/sandbox/xwiki-annotation-parent/… [2] http://svn.xwiki.org/svnroot/xwiki/contrib/sandbox/xwiki-annotation-parent/… Thanks a lot for the help, Anca On 01/25/2010 10:55 PM, Anca Luca wrote: