Proposal for 1.0: os:Variable tag

[goosemanjack]

Wiki page here.

http://wiki.opensocial.org/index.php?title=Temporary_vars_in_templates_and_data_pipelining#Proposal:

Creating this thread to split discussion from deprecation of
DataAttribute discussion.

[Lev Epshteyn]

Did we not agree this was out of scope for the current iteration?

I fully support the idea of a var tag, it just seems like this is new functionality where we're still trying to fix existing spec bugs for 1.0...

[goosemanjack]

I interpreted a comment from the "deprecate DataAttribute" thread to
mean we were reconsidering bringing os:Var back into scope:

http://groups.google.com/group/opensocial-and-gadgets-spec/browse_thread/thread/2cf30bdd6fd2d757/3a670dbf0f1a8456?hl=en#msg_4be57096f88dbfc9

> And from this thread, it doesn't look like we can deprecate Cur
> outside of repeaters without the os:Var stuff.

> -Lane


Our support of keeping the scope restricted for 1.0 to bug fixes
originally came with the caveat that we wanted os:Var included for
consideration this round. We'd also like to see the syntax support
the shortened form "os:Var" in addition to/instead of "os:Variable"

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clc

On Oct 12, 2:28 pm, Lev Epshteyn <le...@google.com> wrote:
> Did we not agree this was out of scope for the current iteration?
>
> I fully support the idea of a var tag, it just seems like this is new
> functionality where we're still trying to fix existing spec bugs for 1.0...
>
> On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 1:55 PM, goosemanjack <cc...@myspace.com> wrote:
>
> > Wiki page here.
>

> >http://wiki.opensocial.org/index.php?title=Temporary_vars_in_template...
> > :

[goosemanjack]

Modified proposal to use the shortened <os:Var > syntax (as everyone
seems to use) instead of the more lengthy <os:Variable> syntax.
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clc

On Oct 14, 10:31 am, goosemanjack <cc...@myspace.com> wrote:
> I interpreted a comment from the "deprecate DataAttribute" thread to
> mean we were reconsidering bringing os:Var back into scope:
>

> http://groups.google.com/group/opensocial-and-gadgets-spec/browse_thr...

[goosemanjack]

Patch created and available for review
http://codereview.appspot.com/143075

[Lev Epshteyn]

Chris, I had some questions about how the proposed syntax can be used for defining non-hardcoded variables - posted on the thread here: https://groups.google.com/group/opensocial-and-gadgets-spec/browse_thread/thread/eb3606b9caa9e348#

Evan had some comments as well.

Can you respond? I feel like we need to get this hammered out conceptually before we get to patches.

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[Evan Gilbert]

On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 3:31 PM, Lev Epshteyn <le...@google.com> wrote:

Chris, I had some questions about how the proposed syntax can be used for defining non-hardcoded variables - posted on the thread here: https://groups.google.com/group/opensocial-and-gadgets-spec/browse_thread/thread/eb3606b9caa9e348#

Evan had some comments as well.

Can you respond? I feel like we need to get this hammered out conceptually before we get to patches.

Yes, talking through the conceptual level will help.

Also it would be nice to see use cases, possibly with before / after examples. A number of the examples in the code review seem to be supporting functionality that already has a convenient syntax.