[Interop-dev] Multiple Graphs/Routes update

[Henning Rogge]

On Sun, Jun 14, 2015 at 9:57 PM, Nemesis <(spam-protected)> wrote:
> On 06/14/2015 09:27 PM, Henning Rogge wrote:
>
> why not keep it simple and allow all four kinds of NetworkXYZ elements
> within a collection? Just make it a container with multiple of the
> other elements inside?
>
>
> Henning, that sounds like a good idea.
>
> Let me impersonate the devil's advocate, why do we need NetworkCollection to
> allow all 4 different objects? What can we do with it? Since we have to
> motivate our choice, this kind of reasoning is necessary.
>
> A possible con would be:
> If I have to develop a parser, knowing that in the collection I can find 4
> different objects is a different amount of work than 2.

A parse that does not understand one of the objects could just skip it.

> A possible pro wouldbe:
> list the devices of a network
>
> That's cool, but why mixing? What use case do you see?

I could see some kind of "node information dump" which just collects everything.

We could extend our collection with a future element without breaking
old parsers... they would just skip unknown/unused sections.

Henning