[development] changes to hook_nodeapi

[Darrel O'Pry]

On Thu, 2006-08-31 at 11:20 -0500, Jeff Eaton wrote:
> > My issue isn't that programmatic submission needed to be 
> > easier, but rather the API for acting on the creation, etc. 
> > of nodes. Just got less consistent and harder to use.
> 
> Fair enough. Someone else had just commented that programmatic
> submission was hard, or complex, and made worse by the patch.
> 
> > As of this patch, hook_nodapi no longer gets called, for 
> > example, with $op='update".
> 
> Well... Yes. That was what the patch did. It changed the system to use
> form processing hooks for CRUD interaction. It can definitely be said
> that there should be an easier way to 'tie in' to those operations. A
> specific helper function rather than form_alter, for example.
> 
> --Jeff


Form processing operations should call crud functions... I'm all about
submit and validate being pulled from nodeapi, since those are in a way
for level... but I think the crud itself should stay in nodeapi.