[Laszlo-dev] For Review: Change 20090423-maxcarlson-5 Summary: Add warnings for non-string LzDataElement attributes

[André Bargull]

On 4/26/2009 9:58 PM, Max Carlson wrote:
> P T Withington wrote:
>> Ok, I am officially confused. (The data stuff always does that to me!)
>>
>> If you can't reliably make an xpath query against a non-string element 
>> in a dataset, I have to ask, "how is webtop's usage working?"
> 
> They are making queries against attribute names, not values.  A specific 
> case is a combo box of mail folders where the attribute name is the 
> label, and the value is a reference to the actual mail folder.  There 
> are many other examples that haven't been tracked down yet

Maybe we could implement the DOM Level3 UserData interface for this case.

> 
>> On 2009-04-26, at 06:47EDT, André Bargull wrote: 
>>> If it's considered to risky to change (which means to fix) the 
>>> behaviour in one release without further notification, I like to 
>>> propose to back out the warnings and the coercion, and instead make a 
>>> release note for the next release (4.4?) explaining the upcoming 
>>> change for the release after that one (4.5?).
>>> Thoughts?
> 
> I agree about the release note, but I think we should leave the warnings 
> in...  Perhaps they should use Debug.info() instead of Debug.warn() - is 
> there a setting in the debugger to restrict the level to cut down the 
> noise?

Yes, you can adjust the "messageLevel" property of LzDebugService to 
suppress certain types of messages.