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

[Jonas B. N. <jo...@gm...>]

Hi Jim,

And others, I can do a release - do you want it to be an alpha  
release, we have not used this earlier, but if you want to it is  
certainly possible.

jonasbn

On 17/03/2008, at 13.18, Jim Brandt wrote:

> Has anyone had a chance to try any of the new functionality?
>
> We've been running it in our dev and QA environments and so far
> everything appears to be working correctly.
>
> Any chance we could look at a plan to release to CPAN?
>
> Thanks,
> Jim
>
> Jim Brandt wrote:
>> 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
>>
>>
>>
>
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> Jim Brandt
> Administrative Computing Services
> University at Buffalo
>
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