RFC_1/RFC1_Implementation_Plan

Implementation Plan for RFC #1

• Finalize CyAttributes API, based on public review [Done: 10/13/2005]

• Agree on way to access global attributes and implement [Done: 10/17/2005]

• Deprecate all attribute access methods in Cytoscape.java and CyNetwork.java (Ethan) [Done: 10/17/2005]

• Revert Cytoscape.java and CyNetwork.java to return GraphObjAttribute for backward compability (Ethan) [Done: 10/17/2005]

• Implement CyAttributesImpl [Done: 10/15/2005]

  • Write Unit Test (Ethan) [Done: 10/15/2005]

• Implement GraphObjAttributes (Nerius) [In Progress]

  • Write Unit Test (Ethan) [In Progress: 75% complete]

• Write CyAttributesReader (Nerius) [In Progress]

  • Write Unit Test (Ethan)

• Write CyAttributesWriter (Nerius) [In Progress]

  • Write Unit Test (Ethan)

• Replace all calls to GraphObjAttributes with calls to CyAttributes (Iliana)

• Remove CytoscapeData and CytoscapeDataImpl from core (Ethan)

• Verify that all references to GraphObjAttributes have been removed

• Celebrate