metadata-driven configuration

[Cantor, Scott]

> I also see how the "indirect method" can be used to set defaults on aggregate
> metadata (as a one-time configuration operation) but I don't see how to
> customize single entities in the aggregate without touching the config. What
> am I missing?

Customizing multiple or single entities is the same, it's based on filters. Single is easier in fact, multiple doesn't scale all that well unless it's expressible with some kind of generic condition or script, otherwise it ends up as a long list of IDs to apply something to.

In any case, Unicon's GUI is meant to hide it all for the people who like GUIs and hide the difference between whether the metadata as a whole is managed locally or not. The main point of it is to support the GUI since there has to be separation between the GUI and the underlying configuration and this is a way to achieve that.

-- Scott