[Serdev] ser script ng - call for proposals

[Jiri Kuthan]

Martin Hoffmann wrote:
> Andrei Pelinescu-Onciul wrote:
>> This is a call for proposals for changes and features you would like to
>> see in the future in ser.cfg scripts.
> 
> Two more things: URI as a attribute type with the same access options as
> URI selects (eg., $foo.user) and lists as attribute type.
> 
> While the former is nice to have, the latter is very important to me.
> Currently, to call forward to a list of recipients, I put all of them
> into one attribute, separated by comma and then have to run a route
> recursively that tears that apart and append_branche()s them.

do you have to?

IMO a current data model's feature (which some consider a bug) is the 
capability
to have multiple same-named AVPs. (getting you an unsorted set of values)



>  A list
> would be much better -- not so much from script side, though, but from
> the provisioning side. Just pushing an extra row into the database is
> much easier and more logical.
> 
> If you think the URI attribute type with "sub-selects" a bit further,
> you end up at an interesting generalization. Those sub-selects actually
> are methods called on a select or the result of such a method call --
> just without arguments. A more traditional way to put this:
> 
>    @from.uri().host()

or host(uri(@from)) :-)

the previous three characters not being part of the expression....

-jiri

> 
> This can easily be extended into a simple object system where the first
> bit is a select or an attribute or even a literal and the other things
> are indeed method calls.
> 
> Regards,
> Martin
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