Re: Encoding attributes and objects in mrl.

Kurt Stirewalt ([email protected])
Thu, 15 Jun 1995 11:24:52 -0400

>How come you don't have a working object system. Should we do a distribute?
>We are about to embark on some new changes, so it might be good to distribute
>before we do.

I don't have a working os because we're still integrating. Ewald and I are
trying to integrate his changes into the configuration mgmt scheme that you
have been wrestling with.

>- Add support for enumerations: Enum_Def and Enum_Value_Def, like Object_def
>and Attribute_Def. Currently the declare_enum methods are empty, so there is
>no way to store the documentation for the enumerations. I noticed that the
>parser throws away the documentation for the enumerations.

Yeah, the parser throws away this info because there is no os method that
takes them. When the method is added to the os, I'll uncomment the source
code in the parser that generates descriptions for enums and values.

>- Add better support for querying the _Def structures from the model server.
>We haven't decided how to do this, but looks like we will do it with a set of
>iterators.
>
>Question for you: how should we document the enumerations. Currently it seems
>that the strings are in the enumeration definitions. Is there support for
>saying something like:
>
>Description Some_Enum {
> "Doc here"
> value_1 "doc";
> value_2 "doc";
>}

This is how it will look when the os can take enum and value descriptions.
Do you want it in now?
-- kurt.