Re: Relationship attributes

[Madhan Neethiraj]

Current name of ‘relationshipAttributes’ makes sense looking from an entity 
point-of-view – it distinguishes regular-attributes of an entity from 
attributes injected by relationships. However, given that relationships can 
themselves might have attributes, it can be confusing.

I was going to suggest ‘relatedEntities’; but ‘relationships’ seems to be good 
choice.

+1 for naming the field as ‘relationships’.

Thanks,
Madhan


On 7/24/17, 12:53 AM, "David Radley" <david_rad...@uk.ibm.com> wrote:

    Hi Sarath,
    Great, personally for the Entity's current relationshipAttributes, I 
    prefer relationships as it is simpler - is there a reason you need 
    attribute in the name?
         all the best, David. 
    
    
    
    From:   Sarath Subramanian <sar...@apache.org>
    To:     dev@atlas.apache.org
    Cc:     Madhan Neethiraj <mad...@apache.org>
    Date:   24/07/2017 07:09
    Subject:        Re: Relationship attributes
    
    
    
    Hi David,
    
    I agree with using the term 'relationship attributes' for attributes of
    relationship, I suggest we use "relatedAttributes" for relationship
    attributes of entity.
    
    
    Thanks,
    Sarath Subramanian
    
    On Sun, Jul 23, 2017 at 2:22 AM, David Radley <david_rad...@uk.ibm.com>
    wrote:
    
    > Hi Madhan,
    > When I see the phrase 'relationship attributes', I am never quite sure
    > whether we are referring to the attributes of an entity that relate to
    > another entity or the attributes of the relationship instance itself. I
    > think the phrase ' relationship attributes' more naturally fits as the
    > attributes of the relationship itself; we are using it in the other 
    sense.
    >
    > I suggest we change the relationshipAttributes in the entity to
    > relationships (if you really want attributes in the name we could call 
    it
    > relatingAttributes)- and use the term 'relationship attributes' purely 
    for
    > the attributes of the relationship itself. What do you think?
    >                 all the best, David.
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