Re: [p2-dev] Match/Context naming

[Thomas Hallgren <thomas@xxxxxxx>]

On 02/24/2010 11:07 PM, Henrik Lindberg wrote:
> How about just Query, and IterativeQuery?
And which one is which :-) ?

createIterativeQuery as in:

 "Creates a query that will iterate over all candidates and apply the 
given *boolean expression* on each"

OR

createIterativeQuery as in:

 "Creates a query using an *expression that will iterate over its input*"

Ian and I discussed the naming on IRC. What we concluded is close to 
what you propose here (assuming the first interpretation of iterable). 
We agreed that since one of the queries is a short form of the other,  
i.e. the boolean expression "<bx>" can always be written as the full 
query "select(x | <bx>)", we can loose the term 'context'. The term 
'match' then becomes useful to denote the short form. That means that:

createQuery(expression)
"Creates a query using an expression that expects full access to all 
candidates"

createMatchQuery(matchExpression) "Creates a query that will iterate 
over all candidates and discriminate by applying the boolean 
matchExpression on each candidate"

I'm content with these names and explanations. Do they sound OK to everyone?

- thomas