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Currently, we have MIDIDevice, MIDIInputDevice and MIDIOutputDevice which can be misleading as they don't necessarily relate to devices per se, but instead they can be just MIDI ports of a single device. There has been quite a lot of discussion about this on the list. (Maybe someone/me can add links later, I'm a bit in a hurry now) I was thinking about simplifying this a bit; At first I thought about renaming MIDIDevice to MIDIInterface, but that can be misleading as well, because you can have multiple ports in a single interface, and sometimes MIDI controllers are referred to as MIDI interfaces. Hence I'd suggest the following: MIDIDevice -> MIDIPort MIDIInputDevice -> MIDIInput MIDIOutputDevice -> MIDIOutput Also, Dom pointed out that the 'device' prefix in the properties of the MIDIDevice interface may be redundant, so I'd suggest we drop that as well.
I think this might help clear up some confusion. I would suggest keeping "Port" as part of the name for the input and output ports, i.e.: MIDIDevice -> MIDIPort MIDIInputDevice -> MIDIInputPort MIDIOutputDevice -> MIDIOutputPort
(In reply to comment #1) > I think this might help clear up some confusion. I would suggest keeping > "Port" as part of the name for the input and output ports, i.e.: > > MIDIDevice -> MIDIPort > MIDIInputDevice -> MIDIInputPort > MIDIOutputDevice -> MIDIOutputPort Hmm, I decided to drop the "Port" suffix anyway as a MIDIInput/MIDIOutput can't really be anything other than a port in this case. Changes applied in: https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/audio/rev/df28ddef0c73
"device" prefixes removed: * https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/audio/rev/8a31db30feb2 * https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/audio/rev/6e7e48ed2d82 (I forgot to include deviceType at the first attempt ;)
Sounds uncontroversial. Marking as FIXED, will close within a week if there is no objection.
(In reply to comment #4) > Sounds uncontroversial. > > Marking as FIXED, will close within a week if there is no objection. I'm still not a fan of this naming. "MIDIInput" could be a representation of a port, it could be a buffer of data, ... I still think it is clearer if "Port" is appended on the Input and Output types. Do we have other examples of how types are described from elsewhere in the platform?
I withdraw my object.
(In reply to comment #6) > I withdraw my object. Anything in particular convinced you? It now seems we have reached consensus with no other objection in almost a month. Closing.
(In reply to comment #7) > (In reply to comment #6) > > I withdraw my object. > > Anything in particular convinced you? Looking at it in practice, it's not quite as bad as I thought it would be. Still not my preferred pattern, but not worth fighting for alone.