[wsas-java-dev] Re: [commons-dev] Improvements to adminui javascript/AJAX library

[Sanjiva Weerawarana]

I'm confused.

> I believe you are referring prior to WSRequest.js. The simplest solution
> would be to start with native/WSRequest.js.

I'm referring to the stuff at 
http://wso2.org/repos/wso2/trunk/wsf/javascript/native/. I think you meant 
the same right?

> We propose that main.js contains functions related to a namespace
> "WSO2.common", (ex: WSO2.common.send(args...)) will solve the namespace
> issue.

+1 but IMO it should be wso2.wsf.

> As an example, WSO2.common.send(args...) is the wrapper function that
> uses WSRequest functionality to communicate with server. This is our
> original plan and we were waiting for a release of WSRequest to achieve
> this.

No I disagree- if there's a need to wrap WSRequest then we haven't got 
WSRequest right. What is preventing you from doing
     foo=new wso2.wsf.WSRequest()
and then using the methods of foo? Let's fix those problems so you can use 
it directly.

THILINA/JONATHAN: are you guys using that in the mashup server??

If folks aren't using it then the code is no good and we must fix it.

> There could be another send() in the namespace of "WSO2.wsas". Thus, we
> could simply create an object of WSO2.wsas and call send() function.
> (i.e WSO2.wsas.send(args..)).
> 
> In addition to this we could give another util function in main.js,
> 
> WSO2.namespace(obj); that will create the object with proper namespace.
> 
> Ex:
> 
> WSO2.namespace('org.wso2.foo'); will create an Object =>
> WSO2.org.wso2.foo. Thus, user can simply implement his functions,
> without any namespace collisions.
> 
> In this mode, WSRequest itself dosen't have to aware of its namespace.

I don't quite grok- that all seems weird and overly complex to me .. all 
that's needed is to put WSRequest in a namespace to avoid collisions. Why 
do we need to go beyond that?

Thanks,

Sanjiva.
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