[Xapian-tickets] [Xapian] #339: Change "name" method of Weight subclasses to return full name

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#339: Change "name" method of Weight subclasses to return full name
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 Reporter:  richard  |       Owner:  olly     
     Type:  defect   |      Status:  new      
 Priority:  normal   |   Milestone:  1.1.0    
Component:  Other    |     Version:  SVN trunk
 Severity:  normal   |   Blockedby:           
 Platform:  All      |    Blocking:           
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 The PostingSource::name() method currently returns the full name of the
 postingsource subclass (eg, Xapian::FooPostingSource).  The Weight::name()
 method just returns a short name (eg, "Foo").  These methods should be
 consistent, and I think the full name approach is the best way to go.

 This was already discussed in ticket #295, but I thought it useful to make
 a ticket so it didn't get forgotten.

 Changing this will break the remote protocol, and possibly API depending
 how you define that, so marking for 1.1.0.  On the other hand, it's very
 unlikely to break user implemented weight classes.

 It's easy to fix, anyway - there's a patch attached to ticket #295, too:
 http://trac.xapian.org/attachment/ticket/295/weightnames.patch

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