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From: Carlos Santana <csantana23@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 24 Oct 2015 02:15:47 +0000
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Subject: Re: [Android][Discuss] Change name of CordovaWebView to
 CordovaWebInterface
To: "dev@cordova.apache.org" <dev@cordova.apache.org>
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+1 if what Simon and Jesse are saying is the same thing :-)


On Fri, Oct 23, 2015 at 7:42 PM Jesse <purplecabbage@gmail.com> wrote:

> Let's go ahead with renaming CordovaWebView => CordovaWebInterface, and
> keeping around a CordovaWebView object so that nothing breaks.
>
> We should also deprecate CordovaWebView, and document the change so that
> people who are using it have some notice, and people who are new know what
> NOT to use.
>
> We don't have to remove it immediately, or even on our next major bump,
> just sometime down the road.
> If we don't move forward we will just be stuck with it forever ...
>
>
>
>
> My team is hiring!
> @purplecabbage
> risingj.com
>
> On Fri, Oct 23, 2015 at 1:19 PM, Nikhil Khandelwal <nikhilkh@microsoft.com
> >
> wrote:
>
> > I understand that it won't break currently and it will break on the next
> > major version bump. IMHO it's just not worth it for this name change.
> >
> > Historically, we've had challenges with giving sufficient notice from
> > breaking changes. I would avoid them unless absolutely needed.
> >
> > -Nikhil
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Simon MacDonald [mailto:simon.macdonald@gmail.com]
> > Sent: Thursday, October 22, 2015 12:14 PM
> > To: dev@cordova.apache.org
> > Subject: Re: [Android][Discuss] Change name of CordovaWebView to
> > CordovaWebInterface
> >
> > Let's just be clear that in Cordova Android 5.0 nothing will break.
> > The interface CordovaWebView has been renamed to CordovaWebInterface but
> > that won't break anything as we introduce a new class called, wait for
> it,
> > CordovaWebView that extends the new CordovaWebInterface. This way all
> > current code that uses CordovaWebView will continue to work without
> > modification.
> >
> > If we start updating our documentation, i.e. how to write a CordovaPlugin
> > for Android, and give people plenty of notice that this is going to
> happen
> > then I don't see why we wouldn't want to move forward.
> >
> > That's just my 2 cents.
> >
> > Simon Mac Donald
> >
> >
> https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3a%2f%2fhi.im%2fsimonmacdonald&data=01%7c01%7cnikhilkh%40microsoft.com%7caf6077fb55224d7b1d2c08d2db1508fe%7c72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7c1&sdata=50aLt1e0sp9z4TrrSBiMnAaBdSj1RrUuIEcnPaHGD1U%3d
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Oct 21, 2015 at 6:13 PM, Nikhil Khandelwal <
> nikhilkh@microsoft.com>
> > wrote:
> > > Thanks, Joe for the summary of the impact later.
> > >
> > > -1. IMO - a naming change is no worth the effort and future breakage.
> > >
> > > -Nikhil
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Joe Bowser [mailto:bowserj@gmail.com]
> > > Sent: Wednesday, October 21, 2015 11:06 AM
> > > To: dev <dev@cordova.apache.org>
> > > Subject: Re: [Android][Discuss] Change name of CordovaWebView to
> > > CordovaWebInterface
> > >
> > > Yes, I do.  I had to search through mobilespec, but here it is:
> > >
> > > private static final boolean HAS_BUILT_IN_SPLASH_SCREEN =
> > > Integer.valueOf(CordovaWebView.CORDOVA_VERSION.split("\\.")[0]) < 4;
> > >
> > > Also, every plugin that calls initialize requires a CordovaWebView
> > passed into it.  That's a pretty big change.  I also haven't touched on
> > Third Party WebViews like Crosswalk, which would have to do the change.
> > >
> > >
> > > On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 1:59 PM, Steven Gill <stevengill97@gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > >> Joe, do you have a small example of what could break with this change.
> > >> What is a usecase for someone to reference CordovaWebView
> > >>
> > >> On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 1:38 PM, Joe Bowser <bowserj@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > >>
> > >> > I'll pull this in at the end of the day.  This small change may
> > >> > break
> > >> stuff
> > >> > further down the road, so people should comment on it now.
> > >> >
> > >> > On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 1:37 PM, Joe Bowser <bowserj@gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> > >> >
> > >> > > OK, Going to pull this in.
> > >> > >
> > >> > > On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 10:02 AM, Simon MacDonald <
> > >> > > simon.macdonald@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >> > >
> > >> > >> +1 from me as I'm the one that initiated the PR.
> > >> > >>
> > >> > >> Simon Mac Donald
> > >> > >> https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3a%2f%2f
> > >> > >> h
> > >> > >> i.im%2fsimonmacdonald&data=01%7c01%7cnikhilkh%40microsoft.com%7c
> > >> > >> 8
> > >> > >> 619031b1eef484bd48508d2da425e41%7c72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db
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> > >> > >>
> > >> > >> On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 12:23 PM, Darryl Pogue
> > >> > >> <darryl@dpogue.ca>
> > >> > wrote:
> > >> > >>
> > >> > >> > +1 for doing this with the major version bump
> > >> > >> >
> > >> > >> > On 20 October 2015 at 09:15, Joe Bowser <bowserj@gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> > >> > >> >
> > >> > >> > > Hey
> > >> > >> > >
> > >> > >> > > We're close to getting 5.0.x ready for release, but I want
> > >> > >> > > to add
> > >> > one
> > >> > >> > more
> > >> > >> > > pull request:
> > >> > >> > >
> > >> > >> > > https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3a%
> > >> > >> > > 2
> > >> > >> > > f%2fgithub.com%2fapache%2fcordova-android%2fpull%2f227&data=
> > >> > >> > > 0
> > >> > >> > > 1%7c01%7cnikhilkh%40microsoft.com%7c8619031b1eef484bd48508d2
> > >> > >> > > d
> > >> > >> > > a425e41%7c72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7c1&sdata=w5TYcbC
> > >> > >> > > H %2fhLIhbrZImOsVFgGMfp%2bIk0Dl6Qk6ADzMVc%3d
> > >> > >> > >
> > >> > >> > > This is a trivial pull request, but I want to get buy-in
> > >> > >> > > from the
> > >> > list
> > >> > >> > for
> > >> > >> > > doing the rename for CordovaWebView class to be changed
> > >> > >> > > before we
> > >> > >> start
> > >> > >> > > deprecating it.  This means we're probably going to remove
> > >> > >> > > the
> > >> shim
> > >> > in
> > >> > >> > the
> > >> > >> > > next major version.
> > >> > >> > >
> > >> > >> > > Thoughts?
> > >> > >> > >
> > >> > >> > > Joe
> > >> > >> > >
> > >> > >> >
> > >> > >>
> > >> > >
> > >> > >
> > >> >
> > >>
> > >
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