Re: [Openinteract-dev] Mapping observers in packages

[<an...@io...>]

Chris Winters wrote:
> I think it's just because I never thought of it :-) Patches (or
> commits) would be great. (I assume you're initializing the map in
> OI2::Observer->initialize()?) Just one note: I'd name it
> 'observer_map' instead of 'map' in the package.ini just to eliminate
> ambiguity.

You have even commented it this way so I thought you might have some 
good reason:

"Mapping an observer to an action is exclusively done in 
C<$WEBSITE_DIR/conf/observer.ini>."

One reason I thought up when doing that change was that you can not 
disable those mappings in any way from the global configuration - you 
can just add more mappings.

Also I noticed that because package.ini requires the package-namespace 
to be used, you can not define object- or subroutine-based observers - 
only class observers (I don't need them, but still..).

Would it be better to let packages just define their own 
conf/observer.ini files? (If the need arises, they can then be made 
overridable by observer-override.ini)

Should I do this instead / also?

- Antti

PS. For what purpose would one need the global observer.ini if you can 
define observers and mappings in packages?