Note: when trying to build a project using the new "Language" class yesterday, I noticed that the implementation is not complete. Please hold off on implementing it in any components until I check in some changes to FalconJx and the framework.
EdB On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 3:57 PM, Alex Harui <aha...@adobe.com> wrote: > > > On 11/1/13 7:48 AM, "Erik de Bruin" <e...@ixsoftware.nl> wrote: > >>> Will we end up doing metadata and describetype following this pattern? >> >>It certainly provides an extra tool towards that goal, but depending >>on the requirements for both features - can you elaborate your ideas a >>bit - there might be other things that we can do, e.g. Closure >>provides some introspection tools as well. > The next "big experiment" is trying to cross-compile an app that uses one > of the app frameworks like Swiz, Parsely, etc. Someone pointed out that > they use metadata and and I assume they must use describetype to fetch > said metadata. > > My hope is to avoid use of describetype in the FlexJS classes we write or > consider a lighter weight implementation for the few things we might need > (I recently checked in a lightweight getQualifiedClassName for CSS > TypeSelector support in JS), but I think we need to see if we can support > the existing app frameworks. > > I'm not sure we'd need full describetype support, probably just enough to > get the metadata. > > -Alex > -- Ix Multimedia Software Jan Luykenstraat 27 3521 VB Utrecht T. 06-51952295 I. www.ixsoftware.nl