[Cosmo-dev] Refactor of cal_main.js

[Matthew Eernisse]

John Townsend wrote:
> Your note here makes me immediately think.. We could come up with some 
> nice abstractions and interfaces that encapsulate some of the items you 
> mention above. For example taking the conflict-resolution code out of 
> the main file and refactoring it into a conflict resolver abstraction 
> and try to layer its work (i.e. conflict abstraction at an abstract or 
> data level followed by an abstraction for rendering conflicts. I don't 
> fully know the details of this code, so I might be speaking out of turn :-)

That's actually the direction I'm trying to go with this too. I proposed 
something like:

app.view.cal.conflict
Event conflict calculations

Where all that code would live. I think where I need help is in making 
these pieces-parts into clean and self-contained abstractions. I hope 
BCM and Bobby can give me some help with that.

> I agree with BCM. Taking a step back and thinking about the overall 
> design would be helpful at this stage. You now have a view of the roles 
> and responsibilities within the code and we can take a hard look at that 
> view and see if we can come with a way of rendering it that is more 
> flexible, extensible, and maintainable. I personally am a big fan on 
> clean and simple abstractions :-)

Sounds good. We need to take advantage of the time while I'm here, and 
get some of this stuff up on the whiteboard. Anything that shakes out of 
this, we can make sure gets posted to the list.


Matthew