[development] $node namespace woes -- can we fix this in D6?

[Jeff Eaton]

On May 31, 2007, at 5:49 PM, Derek Wright wrote:

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> On May 31, 2007, at 1:53 PM, adrian rossouw wrote:
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>> couldn't we get away with changing how it merges the data?
>
> that's basically what i had in mind.  and yeah, changing all the  
> call sites (and therefore, breaking most patches in the queue) is  
> the problem. ;)
>
> i had a scheme for avoiding the majority of the call-site changes  
> (and therefore, patch brokenness) by letting the stuff from {node}  
> and {node_revisions} continue to live at the root of $node (so  
> everywhere that does $node->nid, $node->title, etc wouldn't have to  
> change).  however, that's broken by {node}.comment vs.  
> comment.module's data. :(
>
> anyway, please see http://drupal.org/node/148420 for more details  
> on this, and for the continuation of this thread.
>
> now that we've got another 4 weeks before freeze, there's actually  
> a chance in hell of getting this done for D6... ;)

This is very closely related to the problems we were facing with the  
Node Rendering patch -- building structured data for a renderable  
node is downright hazardous when so much stuff is dumped at the top  
level of the node object... There might be an opportunity for synergy  
here.

--Jeff