On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 8:24 AM, Victor Olaya <vol...@opengeo.org> wrote:
>
> >>
> > I wonder if calling this a "relationship" rather than a dependency makes
> > more sense. What sort of other information will the
> relationship/dependency
> > relay? Like for instance, in this could be good to create the
> relationship,
> > but also state the semantic as well, something like: relate(attribute,
> > features, "attributeOf") or something. Just an idea.
> >
>
> It could be made to have not just a relationship declared, but just
> the type of it, as you say. And maybe a predefined set of possible
> relationships types could be added.
>
One advantage to hard-coding the relationship is that it gives better
type-checking and IDE support. Are there likely to be more than a few
different relationships that need to be expressed?
>
> >> - A hint describing the group of optional one a parameter belongs to.
> >> Some processes have a set of 2 or 3 parameters, from which just one
> >> has to be used (see the ContourProcess for example). If these grouping
> >> is not explicitly described, the UI will let the user fill all
> >> parameters or none of them, instead of enforcing using only one of
> >> them.
> >>
>
>
> > Any ideas how this would be implemented? Maybe something like creating an
> > instance of Parameter called "Or" or something and then have it actually
> > wrap up the individual parameters that are in its mutual exclusive group.
>
> I was thinking about something simpler than that, just adding a value
> called "group" or somthing like that, with the name of the group of
> options.
Might want to use a slightly more explicit name, like "choiceGroup" or
"optionGroup".
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