[patch][cla] Should DojoX RPC allow for "namespaced" method call syntax?

[guest]

Some APIs expose their methods in a flat list of functions, others in (sometimes nested) namespaces. For an example of the latter, Flickr's API has methods like flickr.auth.checkToken, flickr.contacts.getList, etc... To get those to work in a dojox.rpc.Service, we have to rename the RPC methods to something more JS-friendly, like authCheckToken, contactsGetList, and so forth. It might be kind of nice to allow for the following style of code:

var flickr = new dojox.rpc.Service("path/to/flickr.smd");
flickr.auth.checkToken({...}).addCallback(...);

I have a small patch to create a dummy object chain given a dot-separated SMD service name, which basically does nothing but allow for this kind of syntactic sugar, if anyone thinks that might be welcome.

[guest]

Patch to create "namespacing" via a dummy object chain in RPC objects. Written and submitted by Revin Guillen, CLA on file.

[dmachi]

need to take a look closer at this one and see how it fits with the smd we have...we should incorporate it there first.

[kriszyp]

I looked at this patch and it doesn't affect the SMD spec at all. I think this is a really useful patch, and I actually have code that would benefit from it as well. I am going to go ahead and commit this patch unless someone objects.