Re: [Perl-workflow-devel] Making activity configs local to workflow/state?

[Jim B. <cb...@bu...>]

Alexander Klink wrote:

> 
> Hmmm, on second thought, this does not really increase the readability
> of the config file - anyone with a better idea?
> 

It does seem odd that you can have multiple workflow.xml files, each 
with a type, but the remaining config files are not per type.

Would it be possible to support a 'global' action.xml, condition.xml, 
etc., and also allow users to load a 'typed' action.xml? From the config 
side, the typed version would simply add the <type> tags to the top.

Evaluation would first look for a typed definition of an action, if 
available, then go to the global definition. If not there, error.

I haven't looked at the guts, so I'm not sure what would be involved to 
get this sort of configuration loaded, but this seems useful. There are 
cases where you might want global actions, and I agree that there are 
many cases where you want type-specific ones. The same applies to 
conditions, I think.


Jim

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Jim Brandt
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