#SCB2989 (In progress) teaching Scarab the meaning of state values.

*SCB2989 [Enhancement] - teaching Scarab the meaning of state values.*

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*Reasons for the changes*
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  - Added a first preparatory work (API already working as designed)
A bunch of logic is still missing (behavioural model of a statefull Scarab-issue).
patch is in svn 10816


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*Attribute changes*
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  - Status:  Unconfirmed --> In progress  


*Comment Hussayn Dabbous*

I have introduced the "sealed" state some days before.
Now i added the "onHold" state. My final goal is to "teach"
Scarab about states. That means, Scarabs default behaviour should
keep as it is (stateless).

I added api functions to get issuestate isSealed() isOnHold() plus the necessary support methods
And i added some system properties:

scarab.common.status.id=status
scarab.common.status.sealed=closed
scarab.common.status.onhold=onhold
scarab.common.status.onhold.dateProperty=reactivationDate

This information is needed by the Issue.isSealed() and Issue.isOnHold() methods
to find out the "state" of the issue. As this is only preparatory work
for now, nothing is actually seen on the frontend side and nothing happens
on the backend side. However the new API methods can be used to modify
the velocity templates through extension functions (as i do right now
for my project). I still intend to add a better integration maybe
customizable on module/or issueType scope and eventually allow colorized
issuelists etc. But there is still a lot to do before that works 
in a feasible and meaningfull way.


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Activity generated by Hussayn Dabbous ([email protected]) at 07/20/2009 22:33

[Scarab]: http://www.solitone.org/scarab/issues/id/SCB2989

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