[Laszlo-dev] Fileupload and events

[Antun Karlovac]

Thanks. I just emailed laszlo-user with my proposal.

-Antun

On 1/22/10 3:45 PM, P T Withington wrote:
> Ah.
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> API changes are supposed to be written up and circulated on laszlo-user at openlaszlo.org for comment.
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> For OL itself, we do try to follow a process as you outline where the old API works with a deprecation warning for at least one release.  Perhaps that is not necessary for an incubator component.  It seems like it would be a thing to propose with your API and see what comments you get.
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> On 2010-01-22, at 18:27, Antun Karlovac wrote:
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>> Hi Tucker,
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>> Thanks for the info. I was actually referring to the process for a change that would make a significant change to the API.
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>> Do I just make my change and submit the proposal as described in Code_Review_Process if it's an incubator component? i.e. we don't have to go through a period where both the new API and the old API would work concurrently then deprecate the old API, then finally remove it?
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>> -Antun
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>> On 1/22/10 3:23 PM, P T Withington wrote:
>>> The process is documented here:
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>>> http://wiki.openlaszlo.org/Code_Review_Process
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>>> It's mostly driven by the review tool, documented here:
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>>> http://svn.openlaszlo.org/tools/trunk/svn/README.txt
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>>> We'd welcome your contribution, so feel free to ask more questions if the above is not clear.
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>>> On 2010-01-22, at 18:14, Antun Karlovac wrote:
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>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> I was working with the fileupload class today and realized that its API is was never really updated to use events. If I remember correctly, this was written before the days of an LZX<event>   tag. I filed this bug to track it:
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>>>> http://jira.openlaszlo.org/jira/browse/LPP-8729
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>>>> Basically, most OpenLaszlo classes that have asynchronous actions send an event to tell you when the action is done. (e.g. lz.dataset.ondata, onerror...). But fileupload is weird - you have to override methods.
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>>>> What's the process for updating this? I can do the work of updating it (there's not a whole lot), but is there an approvals process I'd need to go through? It's an incubator component, which is why I'm volunteering to do it - I'm assuming it'll be a straightforward API that can change in a future release.
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>>>> Thanks,
>>>>
>>>> Antun
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