Marcus Povey <marcus@dushka.co.uk>

* Simplified extender types, now only supports integer and text - types deamed not to be necessary (yet), also simplifies import and export.
* Types better detected.

git-svn-id: https://code.elgg.org/elgg/trunk@424 36083f99-b078-4883-b0ff-0f9b5a30f544

3 files changed, 31 insertions, 46 deletions

diff --git a/engine/lib/annotations.php b/engine/lib/annotations.php
index c71d235f8..68c9bfc22 100644
--- a/engine/lib/annotations.php
+++ b/engine/lib/annotations.php
@@ -117,27 +117,6 @@
 	}
 	
 	/**
-	 * Detect the value_type for a given value.
-	 * Currently this is very crude.
-	 * 
-	 * TODO: Make better!
-	 *
-	 * @param mixed $value
-	 * @param string $value_type If specified, overrides the detection.
-	 * @return string
-	 */
-	function detect_annotation_valuetype($value, $value_type = "")
-	{
-		if ($value_type!="")
-			return $value_type;
-			
-		// This is crude
-		if (is_int($value)) return 'integer';
-		
-		return 'tag';
-	}
-	
-	/**
 	 * Get a specific annotation.
 	 *
 	 * @param int $annotation_id
diff --git a/engine/lib/extender.php b/engine/lib/extender.php
index 26166a225..5a5d29e08 100644
--- a/engine/lib/extender.php
+++ b/engine/lib/extender.php
@@ -41,9 +41,9 @@
 					switch ($this->attributes['value_type'])
 					{
 						case 'integer' :  return (int)$this->attributes['value'];
-						case 'tag' :
-						case 'text' :
-						case 'file' : return sanitise_string($this->attributes['value']);
+						//case 'tag' :
+						//case 'file' :
+						case 'text' : return sanitise_string($this->attributes['value']);
 							
 						default : throw new InstallationException("Type {$this->attributes['value_type']} is not supported. This indicates an error in your installation, most likely caused by an incomplete upgrade.");
 					}
@@ -59,10 +59,14 @@
 		 *
 		 * @param string $name
 		 * @param mixed $value
+		 * @param string $value_type
 		 * @return boolean
 		 */
-		protected function set($name, $value) {
+		protected function set($name, $value, $value_type = "") {
+
 			$this->attributes[$name] = $value;
+			$this->attributes['value_type'] = detect_extender_valuetype($value, $value_type);
+			
 			return true;
 		}	
 		
@@ -163,6 +167,28 @@
 	}
 	
 	/**
+	 * Detect the value_type for a given value.
+	 * Currently this is very crude.
+	 * 
+	 * TODO: Make better!
+	 *
+	 * @param mixed $value
+	 * @param string $value_type If specified, overrides the detection.
+	 * @return string
+	 */
+	function detect_extender_valuetype($value, $value_type = "")
+	{
+		if ($value_type!="")
+			return $value_type;
+			
+		// This is crude
+		if (is_int($value)) return 'integer';
+		if (is_numeric($value)) return 'integer';
+		
+		return 'text';
+	}
+	
+	/**
 	 *  Handler called by trigger_plugin_hook on the "import" event.
 	 */
 	function import_extender_plugin_hook($hook, $entity_type, $returnvalue, $params)
diff --git a/engine/lib/metadata.php b/engine/lib/metadata.php
index 65b2a9d40..76c953c85 100644
--- a/engine/lib/metadata.php
+++ b/engine/lib/metadata.php
@@ -112,27 +112,7 @@
 			
 		return new ElggMetadata($row);
 	}
-	
-	/**
-	 * Detect the value_type for a given value.
-	 * Currently this is very crude.
-	 * 
-	 * TODO: Make better!
-	 *
-	 * @param mixed $value
-	 * @param string $value_type If specified, overrides the detection.
-	 * @return string
-	 */
-	function detect_metadata_valuetype($value, $value_type = "")
-	{
-		if ($value_type!="")
-			return $value_type;
-			
-		// This is crude
-		if (is_int($value)) return 'integer';
-		
-		return 'tag';
-	}
+
 			
 	/**
 	 * Get a specific item of metadata.