Allow 'uncertainty' in property retrieval
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#3 Allow 'uncertainty' in property retrieval
Some API methods MAY return values for a given property given a set of inputs, but also may not. Currently the API method must declare all POSSIBLE return values, even if it's not likely these will be returned.
Need a method for specifying probability of retrieval of a given property.
- Possibly this would imply declaring percentage change
- Possibly this would imply calling a helper function w/ the specified inputs set to calculate the percentages (e.g. MSN search called with '98006' may 'know' it returns a city 100% of the time, whereas MSN search called with '123 Main st' may 'know' it returns a city 20% of the time)
- Possibly this would imply adding a statistical algorithm to learn the percentage chances, and saving that between sessions of the same method call (persisting as XML or something)