[TYPO3-50-general] Better naming for PropertyEditors

Andreas Förthner andreas.foerthner at netlogix.de
Sat Jan 3 19:22:58 CET 2009


Hi,

we currently have so called PropertyEditors in FLOW3. They basically can 
  transform/convert/edit data between different formats. Imagine a 
DateEditor: You can pass a UnixTimestamp and get a DateTime Object back. 
This is very usefull, e.g. to automatically manipulate incoming GET/POST 
parameters. But the functionality is not the problem right now ;-)

The name "PropertyEditor" is taken from the Java world (Spring). We 
thought that PropertyEditor is not the best name for those objects, as 
it doesn't reflect their functionality very good.

Now I'd like to find the best name for them. Here are some proposal, 
which I'd like you to complete with your ideas:

- PropertyTransformer
- ObjectTransformer
- FormatTransformer
- FormatConverter
- PropertyConverter

I like these too: ;-)
- DataMuddler
- PropertyJumbler
- ObjectClutterer
- ObjectBabelfish

I'm curious about your ideas!

Greets Andi


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