[Dev] 1st experiences migrating Note to the schema API

[Ted Leung]

Hi,

Last week I spent some time trying to port the del.icio.us parcel to  
the new schema API as a way of getting a feel for the new API.   I  
though people might be interested in my experience.

I needed to do three sets of things in order to do the port:

1. I moved all the attribute definitions for Note from parcel.xml  
into Notes.py and was able to comment out the entire Kind definition  
in the parcel.xml file.

2. After that, I inserted a call to the schema module's kindInfo  
method to set the display name for the Note kind.

3. I also needed to import the Note class from the __init__.py for  
the osaf.contentmodel package.

Moving Note over was pretty simple and all of the unit tests passed  
just fine.   Note doesn't have any bi-directional references in it  
(neither does del.icio.us), so I'm probably going to also try to port  
the Flickr parcel so that I can see how that comes over.

I've attached a patch with my changes if you are interested in seeing  
the details.

Ted

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