Re: [DRAFT] board report for 2020-04

2020-04-08 Thread Dirk Frederickx
Juan, Thx for the (long) reply. It is indeed key to carefully select what will/will-not be added to the public api. Having textToHtml() on the public api make a lot of sense IMO. It will facilitate plugin authors (existing, new) in quickly building new plugins just be using the public api's (wi

Re: [DRAFT] board report for 2020-04

2020-04-08 Thread Dirk Frederickx
Sorry, part of the mail was incomplete.Corrected & resend: > Juan, > > Thx for the (long) reply. > It is indeed key to carefully select what will/will-not be added to the > public api. > > Having textToHtml() on the public api make a lot of sense IMO. It will > facilitate plugin authors (existi

Re: [DRAFT] board report for 2020-04

2020-04-08 Thread Juan Pablo Santos Rodríguez
Hi Dirk, would something like context.getEngine().getManager( RenderingApi.class ).textToHtml( Context, String ) work for you? RenderingApi would sit on the o.a.w.api.engine package, and thus being part of the public API. It would, initially, consist of only the .textToHtml(..) method. We can add

Re: [DRAFT] board report for 2020-04

2020-04-08 Thread Juan Pablo Santos Rodríguez
Hi, one last line; just to clarify, I'm not opposed to have the textToHtml method on the public api, my concerns were more inline with not seeing the Engine as being the place for it.. As for how to call it, context.getEngine().getManager( RenderingApi.class ).textToHtml(..) would be an option, b

Re: [DRAFT] board report for 2020-04

2020-04-08 Thread Dirk Frederickx
Juan, Sounds logical to keep the RenderManagerApi (? why the "Api" name?) stuff separated from the Engine interface. I'd prefer the "context.getEngine().render().textToHtml(...) " syntax or perhaps more consistent "context.getEngine().getRenderManagerApi().textToHtml(...)" dirk On Wed, Ap