Item11078: Prefs tests strings for 'isa Meta' - presumably there was a plan, but its not needed anymore?

Priority:	CurrentState:	AppliesTo:	Component:	WaitingFor:
Normal	Closed	Engine	Preferences

I'm in the process of redoing Foswiki::Store and the Meta factory code. In the process I noticed the conditional Foswiki::Meta->new, and could not find any code that used _getBackend with an actual topic object.

So I added the (uncommented) ##ASSERT line, and it also didn't trigger

# Get a backend object corresponding to the given $web,$topic
# or Foswiki::Meta object
sub _getBackend {
    my $this       = shift;
    my $metaObject = shift;

    ##ASSERT(not (ref($metaObject) && UNIVERSAL::isa( $metaObject, 'Foswiki::Meta' ))) if DEBUG;

    $metaObject = Foswiki::Meta->new( $this->{session}, $metaObject, @_ )
      unless ref($metaObject) && UNIVERSAL::isa( $metaObject, 'Foswiki::Meta' );
    my $path = $metaObject->getPath();
    unless ( exists $this->{paths}{$path} ) {
        $this->{paths}{$path} =
          $Foswiki::cfg{Store}{PrefsBackend}->new($metaObject);
    }
    return $this->{paths}{$path};
}

So I'd like to simplify - I will commit soon, and we'll see if anyone notices

-- SvenDowideit - 25 Aug 2011

As far as I remember, the ThinPrefs code was created before Foswiki::Meta refactoring and I had to adapt it in order to commit to trunk. Probably I thought this feature would be used, but it wasn't. Feel free to modify

-- GilmarSantosJr - 26 Aug 2011

done

-- SvenDowideit - 08 Sep 2011