[Zope-CMF] Re: [dev] Actions and CMFSetup: naming conventions proposal

[yuppie]

Seb Bacon wrote:
> yuppie wrote:
> 
>> Dieter Maurer wrote:
>>
>>> yuppie wrote at 2004-7-13 23:53 +0200:
>>>
>>>> 'action':
>>>> ---------
>>>>
>>>> The 'getAction' dict uses 'url', DCWorkflow 'actbox_url' and the 
>>>> label 'URL (formatted)'. CMFSetup uses 'action_expr'.
>>>>
>>>> Proposal: Use always 'url', except of internal names.
>>>> ToDo: Change the label in 'editToolsActions.dtml' and the CMFSetup 
>>>> attributes.
>>>
>>> Maybe, we find a more general name. "action" were not too bad, if
>>> the complete thing were not called "action", too.
>>
>>
>> 'url' is currently returned by listFilteredActionsFor. As you say, 
>> 'action' is already used for the complete thing. I see your point that 
>> this field isn't always used for URLs. But I doubt it would be a good 
>> idea to introduce another term.
> 
> 
> A good alternative might be 'target'.  I'm not convinced it's so bad to 
> introduce a new term, if it serves to clarify.  The term 'url' is 
> inaccurate and misleading IMO.

Well. I'm not completely against a good alternative. 'target' came also 
to my mind, but I don't think it would be less misleading: In 98% 
Actions are used to create HTML links. And HTML anchor tags have a 
'target' attribute with different meaning.

An other alternative that came to my mind is 'uri'. While 'uri' is more 
general I don't think it's worth the change.

I also don't think that 'url' is too bad: Other use cases for that field 
are rare and advanced use cases. At least I think it would be an 
improvement if we don't have to talk about the 'action' of the Action.


Cheers, Yuppie