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Architectural Principles
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This document outlines architectural principles used in the design of
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plone.app.discussion.
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**Discussion items have a portal_type**
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This makes it easier to search for them and manage them using existing
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CMF and Plone UI constructs.
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**Discussion items are cataloged**
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It is possible to search for discussion items like any other type of
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content.
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**Discussion items are subject to workflow and permission**
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Moderation, anonymous commenting, and auto approve/reject should be
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handled using workflow states, automatic and manual transitions, and
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permissions.
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**Discussion items are light weight objects**
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Discussion item objects are as light weight as possible. Ideally, a
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discussion item should be as lightweight as a catalog brain. This may mean
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that we forego convenience base classes and re-implement certain interfaces.
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Comments should not provide the full set of dublin core metadata, though
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custom indexers can be used to provide values for standard catalog indexes.
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**Optimise for retrival speed**
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HTML filtering and other processing should happen on save, not on render,
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to make rendering quick.
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**Settings are stored using plone.registry**
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Any global setting should be stored in plone.registry records.
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**Forms are constructed using extensible z3c.form forms**
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This allows plugins (such as spam protection algorithms) to provide
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additional validation. It also allows integrators to write add-ons that add
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new fields to the comment form.
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**Discussion items are stored in a BTree container**
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This allows faster lookup and manipulation.
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**Discussion items are accessed using a dict-like interface**
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This makes iteration and manipulation more natural. Even if comments are
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not stored threaded, the dict interface should act as if they are, i.e.
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calling items() on a comment should return the replies to that comment
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(in order).
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**Discussion items are retrieved in reverse creation date order**
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Discussion items do not need to support explicit ordering. They should
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always be retrieved in reverse creation date order (most recent for).
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They can be stored with keys so that this is always true.
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**Discussion items do not need readable ids**
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Ids can be based on the creation date.
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**Discussion items send events**
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The usual zope.lifecycleevent and zope.container events are fired when
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discussion items are added, removed, or modified.
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