Using EIEIO

[alphapapa]

Hey,

This looks very cool! It's always fun to see another package that integrates with one you made. Here are a couple of suggestions:

1. I read through the readme, and I think I sort of understand what it means, but it would help to have some examples of "prototypes" and "actions". IOW, I'm not sure what I would actually use this package to do in Emacs.

2. The talk of prototypes and actions and methods sounds object-oriented. Have you considered using EIEIO? :)

Thanks for sharing your work.

[akirak]

Thank you for your comments.

I meant this package to be an implementation of something like petri nets for Emacs (but it is not strictly a petri net). A prototype corresponds to a place/task, and an action to a transition/routing. Actions are specific to a context (i.e. prototype/frame) and can be defined during work but can be persisted. An action can be used like a keyboard macro, but it is a Lisp sexp/command and defined for a particular kind of frame. Actions are available via completing-read interface in the frame (frame-workflow-select-action) but also can be assigned a keybinding like in a Hydra (frame-workflow-action-map).

For example, I am thinking of defining the following prototypes for myself:

• home prototype with an org-agenda as an action
• emacs-lisp prototype with a mode purpose for writing Emacs Lisp package

I definitely need to add examples of prototype configuration. I will create a Wiki and add some example to it.

[akirak]

Yes, protototypes and actions are like objected-oriented. They are saved to the custom file. I didn't consider using EIEIO, because I don't know how to use it. Is it easy to serialize EIEIO objects? I plan to add several features to frame-workflow, but I have to build a clean core before it is developed. Any contribution is welcome.

[alphapapa]

EIEIO can be confusing at first, but it's actually very simple to use. All you need is defclass and defmethod to start. I haven't experimented with serialization myself, but Emacs has eieio-persistent built-in: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/eieio/eieio_002dpersistent.html

I might be interested in contributing in the future, after I grok the project. I'll be looking forward to the examples. :) Thanks.

[alphapapa]

BTW, if you start using EIEIO, you might find this useful: https://github.com/alphapapa/elexandria/blob/master/elexandria.el#L38 You can see an example of using it here (where it's named matrix-defclass): https://github.com/jgkamat/matrix-client-el/blob/client-ng/matrix-api-r0.3.0.el#L114

[akirak]

Thank you. I will check it soon.