> Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2009 14:06:07 -0700
> From: [email protected]
> To: [email protected]; [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [PubSub] collection node definition
>
> On 11/23/09 12:22 PM, Kevin Smith wrote:
> > On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 3:08 PM, Robin Collier <[email protected]>
> > wrote:
> >>> Collections as I see them are really just abstractions of content-based
> >>> pubsub systems (hi Bob Wyman!), where you basically assign a fixed name
> >>> (node identifier) to a particular query into the notification plasm. I
> >>> am still interested in explicitly defining the minimally subscribe-able
> >>> unit (like a blog post), so I want to to pass along a specific node from
> >>> where a notification originates, though.
> >
> >> That is an interesting concept, correct me if I am wrong, but this sounds
> >> an awful lot like a view in a relational database. I am not sure if I
> >> would
> >> consider this to be a collection though, it seems to me like another
> >> concept
> >> which would be better called an aggregation node. I guess I would
> >> distinguish them by defining a collection node as a collection of nodes,
> >> whereas
> >> an aggregation node is a collection of items from multiple nodes.
> >
> > When I read this thread, I'm left thinking that we've got two things,
> > collections as they're currently known, and pesudo-nodes, or
> > node-as-codes, or cold-nosed-bodes, or whatever. I'm not actively
> > writing these systems, though, so I'm not sure. Can anyone say that we
> > definitely do, or definitely don't need to distinguish between the two
> > types?
>
> We do seem to have a bit of a disconnect here. I'd like to either bridge
> the gap between collections and "node-as-code" or decide that there
> really are two separate things here. Right now I lean to the latter.
> BTW we must find a way to use the phrase "notification plasm" in our
> specs somewhere. :P
Agreed! (on both counts)
>
> Peter
>
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