[development] minimizing views_default_views in a module

[Earl Miles]

It's better in Views 3, but in general code like this is meant to be
fire and forget. You don't touch this code directly; if something
changes in the view, you re-export.

On 3/18/2011 6:54 AM, Sean Dague wrote:
> For instance, I find large duplication of:
> 
>         'alter' => array(
>           'alter_text' => 0,
>           'text' => '',
>           'make_link' => 0,
>           'path' => '',
>           'link_class' => '',
>           'alt' => '',
>           'prefix' => '',
>           'suffix' => '',
>           'target' => '',
>           'help' => '',
>           'trim' => 0,
>           'max_length' => '',
>           'word_boundary' => 1,
>           'ellipsis' => 1,
>           'html' => 0,
>           'strip_tags' => 0,
>         ),
> 
> all throughout the export to be not conducive to maintainability (there
> are 12 instances of that stanza, 9 are exactly the same, and the other 3
> only vary in their 'text' field).
> 
> I find that level of duplication somewhat problematic, and something I
> like to avoid.
> 
>     -Sean
> 
> On 03/18/2011 09:31 AM, Carl Wiedemann wrote:
>> Not quite sure I understand what exactly is non-maintainable?
>>
>> You may also investigate http://drupal.org/project/features for
>> assistance with exporting Views to code.
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 7:45 AM, Sean Dague <sean at dague.net
>> <mailto:sean at dague.net>> wrote:
>>
>>     I'm working on a new drupal 6.x module (currently in sandbox
>>     awaiting review - http://drupal.org/sandbox/sdague/1072704) which
>>     exports it's data via views.  When I implemented
>>     hook_views_default_views() I just used the export functionality on
>>     views for a few basic views to get things started.
>>
>>     That works, but those are both very verbose, and don't implement any
>>     i18n. Is there a standard way of trimming down the default values in
>>     those views so this becomes a bit more sane and maintainable?
>>
>>     Advice would be appreciated,
>>
>>             -Sean
>>
>>     --
>>
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>>
>>
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