[Openinteract-dev] About Setup tasks

[<ant...@he...>]

I noticed that most of our SPOPS configurations look pretty much the 
same (or follow the same pattern).

It would be nice to be able to set some default values or generation 
rules for all of the SPOPS classes in one project - at least our spops 
configuration entries could in most cases drop from the current:

[my_object]
class           = OpenInteract2::MyObject
field_discover  = yes
id_field        = my_object_id
increment_field = yes
is_secure       = no
no_insert       = my_object_id
no_update       = my_object_id
base_table      = my_object

to:

[my_object]
class		= OpenInteract2::MyObject

The easiest way to do this would be to modify 
OI2::Setup::ReadSPOPSConfig but currently there is no way to extend or 
replace that piece of code. This reminds me of the problems with 
ActionResolvers, since the problem stems from the discovery of "all 
applicable factories".

To me it seems that using an automatic find mechanism to determine which 
classes should be used for setup / action resolving is causing problems 
and I propose that the find mechanism would be replaced with a list of 
modules in a configuration file (probably server.ini).

This way one could replace ReadSPOPSConfig with a custom one so that it 
would still qualify for other tasks that depend on 'read spops config'.

Even if there would be a way to make this SPOPS default configuration 
using some global configuration file and specialized syntax for 
generation rules (which I'm sure there would), I think it is very 
important that changes like these are made possible.

- Antti