Descriptions of oplet types

[Julia Bamford <jb...@gmail.com>]

As I've mentioned in a few other posts, I'm working on a conceptual
overview that will help people understand Quarks terminology.

I'm working from this doc that Dan pointed me to a few weeks ago:
https://github.com/quarks-edge/quarks/wiki/Quarks-Etiao-Runtime

However, when I compare that to the descriptions for the quarks.oplet.core
package, I feel like there's a bit of a disconnect.

I see:
Source
Sink
Peek

But I don't see:
Process, unless it's now called process source.

Not all of these classes have descriptions, so (as a non-programmer) I'm
feeling a bit at loose ends. Can someone provide a little insight?

-- 
Best,
Julia

Re: Descriptions of oplet types

[Susan Cline <ho...@pacbell.net>]

I think “analytic’ sounds better then the “ones in the middle”.

Susan
> On Apr 1, 2016, at 6:48 AM, Dan Debrunner <dj...@debrunners.com> wrote:
> 
>> On Thursday, March 31, 2016 4:55 PM, Julia Bamford <jb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>>> As I've mentioned in a few other posts, I'm working on a conceptual
>> overview that will help people understand Quarks terminology.
>> 
>> I'm working from this doc that Dan pointed me to a few weeks ago:
>> https://github.com/quarks-edge/quarks/wiki/Quarks-Etiao-Runtime
>> 
>> However, when I compare that to the descriptions for the quarks.oplet.core
>> package, I feel like there's a bit of a disconnect.
>> 
>> I see:
>> Source
>> Sink
>> Peek
>> 
>> But I don't see:
>> Process, unless it's now called process source.
> 
> The four types of oplets in the wiki page are not specific oplet kinds (or class names), maybe "categories" would have been a better term to use.
> 
> So Filter and Map oplets are "processing" oplets, they process incoming streams and produce outgoing streams.
> 
> If anyone has a better term than "processing" please share, other options are "the ones in the middle" :-) or maybe "analytic".
> 
> Dan.

Re: Descriptions of oplet types

[Dan Debrunner <dj...@debrunners.com>]

> On Thursday, March 31, 2016 4:55 PM, Julia Bamford <jb...@gmail.com> wrote:

> > As I've mentioned in a few other posts, I'm working on a conceptual
> overview that will help people understand Quarks terminology.
> 
> I'm working from this doc that Dan pointed me to a few weeks ago:
> https://github.com/quarks-edge/quarks/wiki/Quarks-Etiao-Runtime
> 
> However, when I compare that to the descriptions for the quarks.oplet.core
> package, I feel like there's a bit of a disconnect.
> 
> I see:
> Source
> Sink
> Peek
> 
> But I don't see:
> Process, unless it's now called process source.

The four types of oplets in the wiki page are not specific oplet kinds (or class names), maybe "categories" would have been a better term to use.

So Filter and Map oplets are "processing" oplets, they process incoming streams and produce outgoing streams.

If anyone has a better term than "processing" please share, other options are "the ones in the middle" :-) or maybe "analytic".

Dan.