[Interop-dev] Multiple Graphs/Routes update

[Nemesis]

On 06/14/2015 10:40 PM, Henning Rogge wrote:
> 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.

Ok for me.

Any other thoughts from the lurkers out there?

Federico