[Yanel-dev] import site and introspection

[Michael Wechner]

Andreas Wuest wrote:

> Hi Josias
>
> On 6.3.2007 1:10 Uhr, Josias Thöny wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> While working on the import site feature I noticed a problem:
>> After a site has been crawled and the dump has been imported into 
>> yanel, the pages are not editable because the introspection files 
>> don't exist.
>> Is it really necessary to create an introspection file for each 
>> imported file? Or is there a better solution?
>
>
> Personally, I would all be for dynamically generated introspection 
> objects, based on some meta-data (e.g. isModifiable, etc., paired with 
> some sane fall-back values if a specific property is not present).
>
me too, but we need to discuss how it's best to accomplish this. For 
instance there should always be the check if an introspection exists in 
case to overwrite the generic case (this could be done throught the 
chain of responsibility).

I think it's best if we add a new item to the roadmap and specify it 
first ;-)

Cheers

Michi


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