[Zope-Coders] Towards 2.6

Lennart Regebro lennart@regebro.nu
Wed, 16 Oct 2002 22:03:24 +0200


> I'm concerned that the right thing to do is still open for
> interpretation.  Based solely on the method names, I would guess that a
> method called getUserName() should return "Shane Hathaway", while the
> method getId() should return something arbitrary like "501".  Neither
> one is my login name "shane", which should be available through the
> nonexistent method getLoginName().
>
> Would it make sense to add getLoginName()?

I would expect getUserName() to return 'shane'.
"login name" == "user name" in my world, and I have actually never seen
"username" used for the fullname.

Just my 2 öre.