[Owncloud] namespacing

[Frank Karlitschek]

On 23.04.2012, at 11:03, Arthur Schiwon <blizzz at owncloud.com> wrote:

> 
> 
> On 04/22/2012 02:54 PM, Frank Karlitschek wrote:
>> 
>> 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. :-)
> 
> I'd also go with PHP namespaces.


Hehe. I think it makes sense because it just the official way in PHP 4.3 to do it.
I personally just have an aversion against backslashes from my Windows time 15 years ago ;-)

So lets use the OC, OCP and OCA_<appid> namespaces.
I will work on the OCP part a bit the next few days.

App developer can port their stuff to the OCA<appid> anytime because this shouldn´t break anything.
In the ownCloud 5 development cylce we should port the OC_ prefixes to the OC namespace.

I hope that´s O.K. with everybody. :-)

Frank


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