[TYPO3-50-general] Better naming for PropertyEditors

Lukas Stancik lukas.stancik at robe.cz
Sat Jan 3 22:57:56 CET 2009


Hi,

My 0.0002 cents: "PropertyJukebox" :D

Greets, Lukas

Andreas Förthner wrote:
> 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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