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Deirdre Clyne commented on ATLAS-1410:
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David, I just reviewed the V1.3 and the document is shaping up well. I have a
couple of comments - the first is this idea of having two terms with the same
name in the same workspace. Your example of this regarding replacement prompts
the question - is this a response to not having a versioning solution and thus
adding complexity instead of handling the workflow issue around changing a
definition? If we think there are other reasons for having non unique term
names, how do we understand their separate contexts or decide which to use when?
My 2nd comment is around the use of the word taxonomy. We have the term
glossary to describe a set of terms and categories around a line of business or
other grouping. What would the definition of a taxonomy be to differentiate it
from a glossary? We should only use the two terms if we define them differently
and if they each have a different purpose.
> V2 Glossary API
> ---------------
>
> Key: ATLAS-1410
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ATLAS-1410
> Project: Atlas
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Reporter: David Radley
> Assignee: David Radley
> Attachments: Atlas Glossary V2 proposal v1.0.pdf, Atlas Glossary V2
> proposal v1.1.pdf, Atlas Glossary V2 proposal v1.2.pdf, Atlas Glossary V2
> proposal v1.3.pdf
>
>
> The BaseResourceDefinition uses the AttributeDefintion class from typesystem.
> There are newer more funcitonal versions of this capability in the atlas-intg
> project. This Jira is changing over the glossary implementation to the newer
> entity / type classes.
> Instread of the instanceProperties and collectionProperties in the
> BaseResourceDefintions we should use something in this sort of style :
> "
> AtlasEntityDef deptTypeDef =
> AtlasTypeUtil.createClassTypeDef(DEPARTMENT_TYPE,
> "Department"+_description, ImmutableSet.<String>of(),
> AtlasTypeUtil.createRequiredAttrDef("name", "string"),
> new AtlasAttributeDef("employees",
> String.format("array<%s>", "Person"), true,
> AtlasAttributeDef.Cardinality.SINGLE, 0, 1,
> false, false,
>
> Collections.<AtlasStructDef.AtlasConstraintDef>emptyList()));
> AtlasEntityDef personTypeDef =
> AtlasTypeUtil.createClassTypeDef("Person", "Person"+_description,
> ImmutableSet.<String>of(),
> AtlasTypeUtil.createRequiredAttrDef("name", "string"),
> AtlasTypeUtil.createOptionalAttrDef("address", "Address"),
> AtlasTypeUtil.createOptionalAttrDef("birthday", "date"),
> AtlasTypeUtil.createOptionalAttrDef("hasPets", "boolean"),
> AtlasTypeUtil.createOptionalAttrDef("numberOfCars", "byte"),
> AtlasTypeUtil.createOptionalAttrDef("houseNumber", "short"),
> AtlasTypeUtil.createOptionalAttrDef("carMileage", "int"),
> AtlasTypeUtil.createOptionalAttrDef("age", "float"),
> "
> For the parent child relationships with glossary categories and terms we
> should be able to have the type system manage edge deletion. As part of this,
> we will need to investigate whether we could get rid of the disconnect and
> connect methods added in ATLAS-1186
>
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