[development] hook_nodeapi()

[Darrel O'Pry]

On Tue, 2007-01-02 at 17:03 -0800, Rob Barreca wrote:
> > All four of the module-defined node types that are still in 5.0 core
> > (blog, book, forum, and poll) can and should be made history, and in
> > their place we can just have hook_nodeapi() implementations
> I definitely agree, but envision some module ordering/weighting issues 
> that will need to be worked out as we begin to unify these since you 
> lose the pre-nodeapi hooks and have everything going at the same "time". 
> chx has done some prelim work on this at 
> http://cvs.drupal.org/viewcvs/drupal/contributions/sandbox/chx/weights.php?rev=1.4&view=log 
> but not sure how far along it is.
> 
> Rob Roy Barreca
> Founder and COO
> Electronic Insight Corporation
> http://www.electronicinsight.com
> rob at electronicinsight.com


We shouldn't head towards eliminating the default node hooks. They're
really useful, and simple interfaces for building good content types. 
We shouldn't drop good, reliable, and simple because we've added super
flexible on top. The features aren't exclusive. I could even see CCK
using node hooks for purely user defined content types, and nodeAPI 
for extended content types.

Some ordering problems can be overcome with the way the nodeAPI and node
hooks currently work. I see the initial inclusion of custom fields in
core as probably using a hook between the node hook invocation and
nodeAPI invocation. Weights couldn't cleanly solve the ordering issues
we have, especially where different API's implemented by the same module
should be ran in different orders.