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# Naming conventions for sources
## Introduction
When using alt.js's sources, we don't want the source's method to clash with the store/action's method names.
While actions will still be named by the following schema:
```
<verb><ObjectToManipulateInTheStore>
```
e.g.
```
fetchCurrentUser
logoutCurrentUser
fetchApplication
refreshApplicationToken
```
we cannot repeat this for a sources' methods as patterns like this would emerge in the stores:
```javascript
onFetchCurrentUser(invalidateCache) {
this.invalidateCache = invalidateCache;
if(!this.getInstance().isLoading()) {
this.getInstance().fetchCurrentUser(); // does not call a flux "action" but a method in user_source.js - which is confusing
}
}
```
Therefore we're introducing the following naming convention:
## Rules
1. All source methods that perform a data lookup of any kind (be it cached or not), are called `lookup<ObjectToManipulateInTheStore>`. As a mnemonic aid, "You *lookup* something in a *source*".
2. For all methods that do not fit 1.), we prepend `perform`.
## Examples
### Examples for Rule 1.)
*HTTP GET'ing the current User*
```javascript
UserActions.fetchCurrentUser
UserStore.onFetchCurrentUser
UserSource.lookupCurrentUser
```
### Examples for Rule 2.)
*HTTP GET'ing a certain user endpoint, that logs the user out :sad_face:(, as this should not be a GET request anyway)*
```javascript
UserActions.logoutCurrentUser
UserStore.onLogoutCurrentUser
UserSource.performLogoutCurrentUser
```