[Schevo-devel] Field name in field-spec

[Tom Locke]

>The field_spec is an ordered dictionary of field_name : FieldClass
>pairs.  So field_spec.keys() would get you a list of field names.
>  
>
To clarify:

In [21]:f = db.PhoneNumber.field_spec["person"]

In [22]:type(f)
   [22]:<class 'schevo.field.FieldMeta'>

This 'f' thing has all the details about my field right?

In [24]:f.name
AttributeError: type object 'Entity' has no attribute 'name'

But not its name.

>You might have to provide a more detailed use-case.
>
I needed it at one point, but as my design has moved on, I no longer 
need it, so maybe it's not useful after all :-). Basically I had to pass 
both the FieldMeta and the field name (as a separate param) to some 
function somewhere, and that seemed unnecessary.

It just seems to belong there. in order to make that 'f' a complete 
description of the field, just like:

MyClass.__name__
db.Person.name

A reference from the FieldMeta back to the extent seems appropriate too. 
The name of the field and the extent it belongs to are certainly field 
metadata.

Tom.