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Randall Hauch commented on DNA-357:
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I'm fine with hiding it, though we need to do a little better about not letting users
modify it. In essence, it needs to be protected property (in the editing sense).
The JCR spec doesn't really say it's invalid to add additional properties to
"nt:base", but it does say (section 6.7.22.2) that "An implementation may
extend the definition of any predefined node type by adding supertypes to those defined in
this specification." Since we cannot add mixins to "nt:base", I would
think we could add "dna:nodeDefinition" to nt:base as a protected, non-mandatory
(optional), and autoCreated property. So even though we continue to hide it the property,
having the property definition prevents users from setting it on a node (whether or not
one is already there).
Thoughts?
Hide dna:nodeDefinition Property from Users
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Key: DNA-357
URL:
https://jira.jboss.org/jira/browse/DNA-357
Project: DNA
Issue Type: Feature Request
Components: JCR
Reporter: Brian Carothers
Priority: Minor
Attachments: DNA-357.patch
dna:nodeDefinition is a bit of an odd duck. It is set on every property but doesn't
always have a valid JCR definition. This breaks an export-import round trip as the
property cannot be set during import. It also breaks a few TCK tests that assume a
jcr:xmltext node only has two properties (jcr:primaryType and jcr:xmlcharacters), but
that's really a TCK defect.
Can we just suppress this property at the JCR layer? It would still be available for
internal use but would not appear to end users. Alternatively, we should modify our
definition for nt:base to include it as a protected property - this solution may violate
the spec.
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