[Owncloud] namespacing

[Frank Karlitschek]

On 22.04.2012, at 14:47, Bartek Przybylski <bart.p.pl at gmail.com> wrote:

> Heya!
> 
> W dniu 22 kwietnia 2012 14:40 użytkownik Georg Ehrke
> <ownclouddev at georgswebsite.de> napisał:
>> Am 22.04.2012 um 14:37 schrieb Bartek Przybylski:
>> 
>>> Heya!
>>> 
>>> W dniu 22 kwietnia 2012 14:28 użytkownik Frank Karlitschek
>>> <frank at owncloud.org> napisał:
>>>> Hi everybody,
>>>> 
>>>> currently all Classes in ownCloud start with OC_
>>>> This leads to a problem if one app wants to use a class name thats already used in the core or in another app.
>>>> A second problem is that we want to build a public api that's stable across different ownCloud version. If apps calls all the internal classes/functions or session variable we run into a problem in the long run.
>>>> 
>>>> Because of that I propose this new namespacing schema:
>>>> 
>>>> OC_  "ownCloud " Reserver for internal classes and session variables or the core
>>>> OCP_ "ownCloud public" Reserved for the new public API that has to be used by apps exclusively. (Still has to be build)
>>>> OCA_"appidentifier"_  "ownCloud App" Reserver for use in ownCloud apps. The unique identifier has to be in the class name so that it doesn`t clash with other apps.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> What do you think?
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> Why not use namespacing builded in language ?
>>> http://php.net/manual/en/language.namespaces.php
>> I would appreciate this too.

Sure. Something to consider. I personally don´t like the syntax but that´s not important. :-)


> Obviously this will require more amount of work but might make
> owncloud true OOD and OOP product.
> 
>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Cheers
>>>> Frank
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> bartek
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