Hello,

On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 7:09 PM, Thomas Mortagne
<[email protected]>wrote:

> Hi devs,
>
> I would like to introduced a standardized (at observation API level)
> way to indicate that en event represent the beginning or the end of
> something. The idea is them to use it in things like activity stream
> to group events/whatever or in my case maintain a stack of states in
> the Execution context about the current action updated by listening to
> events.
>
> My immediate use case is to filter some modification in automatic
> watch feature (imported xar, crated wikis, etc.) but I feel that we
> need that information for a larger audience.
>
> In details my proposal is to introduce BeginEvent and EndEvent
> interface (feel free to suggest better names if you have some in
> mind). Then pushing the BeginEvent instance in the context in a stack
> of current events poped when receiving a EndEvent.
>
> Note that I don't not plan to put an id in Begin/EndEvent since it
> should not be needed if they are properly generated (some job can't
> finish if all it's sub jobs are not finished).
>
> WDYT ?
>

Definitely +1.

Raluca.


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