[GemStone-Smalltalk] Class names and VisualWorks namespaces

[David Shaffer]

Thanks Richard, I guess I was just looking for confirmation that I had to write this code myself.  At the moment I’m mapping VW namespaces to GS symbol dictionaries (replacing “.” with __ and ignoring containment of one namespace inside another).  This keeps classes unambiguous on the server.  Code attached “kind of” works and comments are welcomed but not expected ;)  Now I have to sort out all of the magic in GbsSession>>createGemStoneClassFor:copyOldVersion: and GbsSession>>doesClientClass:matchServerClass: since those methods handle lots of special cases (class already exists with same/different structure etc) but are, unfortunately, interactive.

(Sorry about the crappy Topological sort…it will need to be revisited if you’re publishing a large number of classes).

Best,

David



> On Nov 2, 2020, at 12:51 PM, Richard Sargent <richard.sargent at gemtalksystems.com> wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Oct 27, 2020 at 7:48 PM David Shaffer via GemStone-Smalltalk <gemstone-smalltalk at lists.gemtalksystems.com <mailto:gemstone-smalltalk at lists.gemtalksystems.com>> wrote:
> Am I misunderstanding or does GemBuilder for VisualWorks ignore VisualWorks namespaces when automatically generating server classes and automatically creating connectors?  
> 
> From the GBS for VisualWorks documentation:
> GemBuilder deposits automatically generated GemStone server classes in the
> GemStone symbol dictionary UserClasses, which it creates if necessary.
> Automatically generated client Smalltalk classes are deposited in the current
> package. 
> With respect to the "ignore VisualWorks namespaces" part of your question, I think the best way to answer it is "pretty much".
> 
> As noted in the documentation, this automatic class generation is intended as a developer convenience. It is still best to deploy code to each environment in advance of running the application and to predefine the class connectors that could have a conflict or otherwise be unreachable by name lookup.
> 
> 
> Best,
> 
> David
> 
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