[Drupal Con AMS 2005] Chad Phillips - Drupal undelete, Angela's form thoughts
created on Wed, 2005-10-19 10:43
- current delete cycle - not much modules can do during delete cycle, closed system
- undo modification - user can recover the data through an undo interface (data put in a "deleted" table)
- advantages - improved UI, no confirm screen, less chance of critical data loss
- current thing is to only respond to node_delete's calls
- modules should have say so
- possible implementation: deleted table with did, type, table, data, timestamp
- add drupal_delete() and drupal_undo()
- Chris Messina: have a trash can exposed to user
- node delete = admin concept only
- trash for user
- re-use trash concept for SPAM
- Angela's opinion on Form API:
- breaks backward compatibility with 400 contrib module (legacy.inc)
- backwards compatibility until 4.8
- alternative is for small team to fix the contrib module
- Karoly's thoughts - removal of legacy.inc proposed by Gerhard and Karoly, it is possible to make node_hooks work
- it could work, but then legacy modules couldn't use the features of the forms APIs
- Chad - developers are saying they need more time, just got servicable docs in the last week
- Adrian - if we enable legacy, old validation won't work with new validation system
- Need to discuss in the other room and come to a conclusion by the end of DrupalCon
