Re: [Openinteract-dev] Need input on a new system

[Chris W. <ch...@cw...>]

Andrew Hurst wrote:
 > ...
> quick, you can do it however you like.  And we can probably open source 
> it as well")  But we can't make any promises until its actually released 
> back to the community, of course ;)

It would be great, but I know that uphill battle that can be...

> ...
> I seem to recall you (Chris) talking about the comment module being able 
> to attach to any object in the system, which is why I thought this way 
> might work well.  Is that the case?

Correct. It really just treats the object as a class + ID pair and 
then uses that as an organizational point. Kind of like the ID for a 
thread beginning, but more useful so you can find all the comments 
for an object with a component call:

[% OI.comp( 'show_comment_by_object', object = news ) %]

For instance, I have the preceding on all 'news' objects on my 
website. And a few 'page' objects I have it as well, such as some 
random thoughts about matrix stuff. That call looks like:

[% OI.comp( 'show_comment_by_object', object = page ) %]

You can, of course, get all this data programmatically as well.

This way of working has always been part of OI but rarely explicit. 
With OI2 I think I'll include the 'comments' and 'object_link' 
packages which take advantage of this functionality. The 
'object_link' package just adds a layer of topics so you can link 
any two arbitrary objects (pages, news items, recipes, movie 
reviews, external links, etc.) by a topic and get a useful 'Related 
Items' listing of them.

> I will also need to add some features to the comment mechanism like 
> topics for the comments, ability for a logged in user to only see their 
> own comments, and a display of only comments in topics a person has 
> permission for.

Cool!

Chris

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