[Perl-workflow-devel] Typed conditions and perl config

[Jim B. <cb...@bu...>]

Hello all,

I've checked in changes for the following:

* conditions can now be typed, so if you have foo and a bar workflows, 
they can implement the condition AdminRequired with the same name, but 
different code for each.

* I applied all the type changes to the perl config.

Other notes:

* I decided not to implement types for validators because I couldn't 
come up with a case where a validator would vary by type. I mean 
'is_number' or 'is_email_address' should be the same regardless of a type.

* The tests for perl configuration were very light, so most of my time 
was spent trying to add testing infrastructure for perl configs.

* There was no testing of persister configs, so I added some. There is 
room for more.

* I discovered that the persister configuration isn't consistent with 
the other methods. For example, in the xml, actions look like:

<actions>
   <action>

But persisters don't have that outer tag level. It would probably be 
good to add it at some point, but it would be tricky to do so and not 
break things for older installs.

So if you get a chance, let me know if the new tests work on your 
systems. Even better, if you have real workflow systems in a dev area, 
let me know if anything is broken there. I'm going to continue testing 
on my systems.

Jim



-- 
Jim Brandt
Administrative Computing Services
University at Buffalo