Class specification import

Monday 01 November 2010 3:14:51 pm

Classes can be imported and exported natively using the Pacakging system (but objects of a given class will not be updated if you import an updated class definition).

Elsewhere in the forums I have written a code snippet for a cronjobs that checks if class definitions have changed since the last time and, when so, creates a new version of a package with definition of all classes.

The ezxmlinstaller extension can probably already do what you need (eg. class import with content upgrade).

The ggsysinfo extension in its latest version has a nice printable report with definition of all classes that can be saved as part of project documentation.

There are probably other extensions doing something silmilar...

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Monday 08 November 2010 6:31:48 am

Hi guys,

Thanks for weighing in. I too have thought about the package system, but I do not completely trust it. Allthough its early kinks seems to have been ironed out, I'm not sure how it would handle modifications to an existing class and, for instance, the order ot its attributes. Also, packages are created from existing content classes, and since I won't be having on of those, but rather a specification of it, the code envolved in producing the package might make the project unreasonably time consuming.

I might end up creating and checking the content classes directly towards the eZContentClass class.

Sincerely,

Eirik Alfstad Johansen
http://www.netmaking.no/