Need help choosing a class name for CSS public API

[David Grieve]

CssMetaData it is. Thanks, everyone, for your input.

On Dec 11, 2012, at 10:00 AM, Hendrik Ebbers <hendrik.ebbers at me.com> wrote:

> +1 CSSMetaData
> 
> Am 11. Dezember 2012 um 14:58 schrieb Sven Reimers <sven.reimers at gmail.com>:
> 
> +1 CSSMetaData (or CssMetaData)
> 
> 
> Sven
> 
> 
> On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 5:51 AM, Gerrit Grunwald <han.solo at muenster.de>wrote:
> 
>> +1 CSSMetaData
>> 
>> Gerrit Grunwald
>> 
>> Am 10.12.2012 um 22:03 schrieb Richard Bair <richard.bair at oracle.com>:
>> 
>> > We started off with StyleablePropertyMetaData -- but it is really long.
>> CSSMetaData is certainly shorter.
>> >
>> > I'm not really a fan of "Glue", I get sticky fingers just thinking about
>> it! :-)
>> >
>> > Richard
>> >
>> > On Dec 10, 2012, at 12:35 PM, Quartam - Jan Schenkel <
>> jan.schenkel at quartam.com> wrote:
>> >
>> >> How about CSSMetaData?
>> >> If it's not already used elsewhere, it would seem reasonably short and
>> to-the-point.
>> >>
>> >> Jan.
>> >>
>> >> On 10 Dec 2012, at 19:18, David Grieve <david.grieve at oracle.com> wrote:
>> >>
>> >>> In the CSS public API proposal (
>> https://wikis.oracle.com/display/OpenJDK/CSS+API+to+support+custom+UI+Controls),
>> I have a class name that is rather cumbersome and I'm trying to find
>> another name. The class name in the proposal is StyleablePropertyMetaData
>> and, to some extent, that is what the class is since this is where the
>> node's property and the css property come together. The meta-data for
>> Node's opacityProperty is shown below. As you can see, there is some
>> information about the css property name (-fx-opacity), the type of value (a
>> <size>) and the initial property value. There are also two methods that are
>> used by CSS so that CSS can set the property value.
>> >>>
>> >>> So, I'm looking for a name for this thing thinking that there must be
>> something better than StyleablePropertyMetaData. I was thinking StyleAgent
>> since this class takes an active role in interacting with the node
>> property. But "agent" has the connotation of something running in the
>> background. Maybe StyleLiaison?
>> >>>
>> >>> private static final StyleablePropertyMetaData <Node,Number>
>> OPACITY =
>> >>> new StyleablePropertyMetaData <Node,Number>("-fx-opacity",
>> >>> SizeConverter.getInstance(), 1.0) {
>> >>>
>> >>> @Override
>> >>> public boolean isSettable(Node node) {
>> >>> return node.opacity == null ||
>> !node.opacity.isBound();
>> >>> }
>> >>>
>> >>> @Override
>> >>> public WritableValue<Number> getWritableValue(Node node) {
>> >>> return node.opacityProperty();
>> >>> }
>> >>> };
>> >>>
>> >>> Does anyone have a suggestion?
>> >
>> 
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