[chef] Re: RE: Re: attribute naming for Java attributes, snake_case or CamelCase?

[Daniel DeLeo < >]

On Thursday, April 12, 2012 at 4:17 AM, RUSSELL Scott wrote:

> Hi,
> I would tend to agree with Zac. Being a sysadmin who does java, then I 
> would tend to be looking for Xmx, and not xmx. 
> 
> Sc0tt...
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> Subject: [chef] Re: attribute naming for Java attributes, snake_case or 
> CamelCase?
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> Hiya,
> 
> I'd like to argue the other position :)
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> On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 8:51 AM, Bryan Berry 
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> > Java stuff all uses CamelCase while ruby uses snake_case
> > 
> > tomcat "liferay" do
> > jvm do
> > Xms '256m'
> > Xmx '512m'
> > MaxPermSize '256m'
> > end
> > end
> > 
> > Should the attributes be named MaxPermSize or max_perm_size? Even harder,
> > Xmx or xmx (max jvm heap size)?
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> 
> I'd suggest sticking with the naming in your example - ie, they should
> match the options passed to Java.
> 
> Rationale: the DSL should match the expectations of the user.
> 
Depending on the user's background they may be expecting either style. For 
maximum do-what-I-mean value, you can use method aliasing to make both styles 
valid.


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Dan DeLeo