[TYPO3-50-general] File name conventions for classes and interfaces

[Martin Kutschker]

Robert Lemke schrieb:
> Hi Martin,
> 
> Am 11.12.2006 um 09:39 schrieb Martin Kutschker:
> 
>> Too verbose but not obvious. I think I'm too dumb to get the  difference
>> between the definition and the implementation. And how does this  differ
>> from a class file?
>>
>> So, going back to the original suggestion I'd use a "Interface"  
>> suffix as
>> the "I" is really ugly:
>>
>> HelloWorld.php
>> HelloWorldInterface.php
>> HelloWorldException.php
> 
> 
> That naming has the disadvantage that only one implementation of the  
> interface is named after the interface. What I meant was this:
> 
> Let's say we have an interface which describes how a "Greeter" class  
> should look like, then we call the interface "Greeter". One  
> implementation of a greeter could be the "HelloWorldGreeter". An  
> alternative implementation would be the "HelloMartinGreeter". Both  are 
> greeters and therefore implement the "Greeter" interface.
> 
> Another example: An interface defines the API for a Template Engine,  it 
> is therefore called "TemplateEngine". Now we have three  implementations:
> 
>   - SmartyTemplateEngine (implements TemplateEngine)
>   - TemplaVoilaTemplateEngine (implements TemplateEngine)
>   - ClassicTemplateEngine (implements TemplateEngine)
> 
> Someone wants to enhance the ClassicTemplateEngine by adding the  
> automaketemplate functionality. He creates a new class which inherits  
> the ClassicTemplateEngine and adds or replaces some methods. It is  
> called "EnhancedClassicTemplateEngine".
> 
> The question you should always be able to ask is: "Is [Class name] a  
> [Interface name]?" ("Is SmartyTemplateEngine a TemplateEngine?").
> Sometimes you might even want to use interfaces just because you want  
> to be able to ask the previous question - the interface doesn't  
> neccessarily add any new methods. These interfaces are then called  
> "marker interfaces" because the mark your implementation.
> 
> You see what I mean?

Not sure.

Say I have a class MyClass which is no interface and implements no 
interface. And there is the interface MyAPI, which defines an interface.

So the files are called: MyClass.php and MyAPI.php. Is this a problem for you?

Maybe this was the reason why Java uses the "I" prefix.

Otherwise your idea is good.

So we have TemplateEngineInterface.php or ITemplateEngine.php but STILL 
SmartyTemplateEngine (pre-/suffix dropped).

In the case of implementations of more than one interface I would not use 
any interface name in the file name.

Masi