On 15.11.2013 11:13, Sylvain Joyeux wrote: > On 11/14/2013 02:04 PM, Matthias Goldhoorn wrote: >> Possible would be: >> - from,to (implementation quite limited because underlying is a >> string/string rep.) > What is that ? The intention of definig allowed ranges for input data (only values from e.G. -1 to 1 is valid) >> - default values for input ports > Input ports do not have a default value in Rock (and IMO should not have > ...) In rock so far not ;) >> - scale to provide information to the UI > Even though I have a strong dislike with the idea (and that Rock's > guidelines state that the scale should be "1" w.r.t. the SI unit ...), I > have to admit that the Time class is already breaking that rule :( > > Now, what I *am* wondering is: this is a "datatype" metadata, not a > property/port/... (e.g. the scale applies on the data, not on the port). > Shouldn't we have a separate metadata associated with the port/property > type (which would be merged with typelib's metadata information for the > type) ? Or how could we separate the port/property metadata from the > port/property's type metadata ? > >> - Connected peers (that rock know (limited to established and released >> connection from orocos.rb)) > Physical quantity: (length, angle, speed, rotational_speed, torque, ...) > Sinc'e noone has currently interest in adding additional kind of meta data i skipping the (public) use of the above one's. The only one i add is the connection_tracking i already have mentioned. I push in a few minutes the metadata support and enabling it by default. This will force a rebuild on all modules if you do an update (and are on master).
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