content edit handler has to have the same name as extension

Wednesday 29 June 2011 3:45:27 pm

By looking at the code that loads content edit handlers from extensions I see this line:

$fileName = eZExtension::baseDirectory() . '/' . $extensionDirectory . '/content/' . $extensionDirectory . 'handler.php';

This means that the name of the file containing content edit hanlder has to be in this form:

<extension_name>handler.php

And by looking furthermore, I see that the name of the handler class has to be in form:

<extension_name>Handler

Why is this restriction in efect? Is there a good reason fo it? Shouldn't things like this be configurable?

Because this means that you can have only one content edit handler per extension.

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