Activation Criteria for Attribute resolvers

[Cantor, Scott]

On 8/14/13 8:43 AM, "Rod Widdowson" <rdw at steadingsoftware.com> wrote:

>Do we have any idea how we might want to wire this up?  What are the sorts
>of predicates we might want to use?  Do we want to think in terms of a
>similar predicate language to that used in filtering?

I think we probably want an interface, a Scripted implementation of it,
and that's about it.

>I could see that there might be use for a predicate which says "Only
>resolve
>this data connector if the SP is such and such" and so forth, particularly
>if it was considered that the act of resolution might be particularly
>heavyweight (big slow remote database lookup).    Of course a similar
>result
>can be achieved by filtering.

That would certainly be a common case, but I fear spending the time to
really come up with the common ones at this stage, vs. just making the
interface stable and getting a scriptable plugin available.

-- Scott