Separate lines is better from a diff'ing point of view - as mentioned
previously.
On Jul 17, 2006, at 3:08 PM, Mike Schrag wrote:
> Ohh you're advocating the inverse of what we do now ... Currently
> PropertyListSerializer does the EOKVCArchiver-style. The problem
> is that only sometimes (I think) would you want your dictionaries/
> lists on a single line in EOModel plist files, and I don't really
> have visibility into the serializer (without adding a visitor-style
> interface that gets passed in) to tell the serializer when I want a
> newline and when I don't. But maybe there are some simple
> heuristics that we can implement that tend to always make it about
> right.
>
> I think there is less of a chance of needing to read eomodel files
> outside of EOModeler, though (as compared with D2W rules). At
> least I have only found a couple of occasions. In those cases, I
> prefer having them on separate lines, I think. Open for discussion
> on this one, though.
>
> ms
>
> On Jul 17, 2006, at 2:53 PM, Anjo Krank wrote:
>
>> I mean:
>>
>> {"rules" = (
>> {"class" = "com.webobjects.directtoweb.Rule"; "rhs" = {"class" =
>> "com.webobjects.directtoweb.Assignment"; "keyPath" = "sortKey";
>> "value" = ""; }; "author" = "0"; },
>> {"class" = "com.webobjects.directtoweb.Rule"; "rhs" = {"class" =
>> "com.webobjects.directtoweb.Assignment"; "keyPath" = "maxColumns";
>> "value" = "2"; }; "author" = "0"; },
>>
>> instead of the verbose EOKVCArchiver format.
>>
>> {
>> "class" = "com.webobjects.directtoweb.Rule";
>> "rhs" = {
>> "class" = "com.webobjects.directtoweb.Assignment";
>> "keyPath" = "sortKey";
>> "value" = "";
>> };
>> "author" = "0";
>> },
>>
>> Granted, with the rules it�s simple because they are just one big
>> array of stuff, so i just don�t emit \n after the second level.
>>
>> Cheers, Anjo
>>
>> Am 17.07.2006 um 20:41 schrieb Mike Schrag:
>>
>>> You're referring to how plist serialization in WO will sometimes
>>> do ( value1, value2, value3 ) instead of:
>>> (
>>> value1,
>>> value2,
>>> value3
>>> )
>>> , right? It looks like PropertyListSerialization in Cayenne
>>> always does individual lines, so we get that for free ...
>>>
>>> ms
>>>
>>> On Jul 17, 2006, at 2:34 PM, Anjo Krank wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Am 17.07.2006 um 19:20 schrieb Chuck Hill:
>>>>
>>>>>>> I just had a vision: an EOModeler that writes plists in a
>>>>>>> deterministic fashion. Wow. Now THAT would be cool! :-P
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Imagine!? I just switched back to CVS so I'm looking forward
>>>>>> to testing this.
>>>>>
>>>>> Ugh. This must be my most hated bug in EOModeler.
>>>>
>>>> The new RuleModeler in ProjectWonder saves all D2W rules (sorted
>>>> by prio) each on its own line. A similar approach would be
>>>> useful for EOM, wouldn't it?
>>>>
>>>> Cheers, Anjo
>>>
>>
>
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