[kepler-users] internally connect actor

[Chris Weed]

Shawn,
I was able to stick the semantic search code in and find the appropriate actor,
is it possible to make it automatically stick it on the workspace and
connect it up?
Chris

On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 4:38 PM, Shawn Bowers<sbowers at ucdavis.edu> wrote:
> That is great.  Please let me know if you want help, have questions, etc.
>
> Shawn
>
> On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 1:36 PM, Chris Weed<chrisweed at gmail.com> wrote:
>> OK, I think I'll take a crack at it.
>> Chris
>>
>> On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 4:34 PM, Shawn Bowers<sbowers at ucdavis.edu> wrote:
>>> Yep, that button is a placeholder.  I think some of the pieces are
>>> there to implement it (e.g., the suggest components), but we never got
>>> around to implementing this.
>>>
>>> Shawn
>>>
>>> On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 1:31 PM, Chris Weed<chrisweed at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Yea, that "Insert Adapters" button looks like what I want.
>>>> Unfortunately, it seems to be a placeholder.
>>>> Chris
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 11:00 AM, Shawn Bowers<sbowers at ucdavis.edu> wrote:
>>>>> Hi Chris,
>>>>>
>>>>>> I would like to create an actor that when connected to other actors
>>>>>> will inspect the actors it is connected to and show the user the set
>>>>>> of actors that could fulfill this connection based on the Semantic
>>>>>> info.
>>>>>
>>>>> For this, you might look at the "Type Check > Summary" context menu
>>>>> action. This can be found by right-clicking on the workflow canvas.
>>>>> This does both"semantic" and "structural" type checking for a
>>>>> workflow. Like the other semantic type stuff, the UI is a prototype
>>>>> ... but does let you see which channels are mismatched, which are
>>>>> "correct" (everything matches), and which channels do not have enough
>>>>> information (e.g., because the structural or semantic types aren't
>>>>> given). When you click on channels in the tables of the UI, they are
>>>>> highlighted on the canvas.
>>>>>
>>>>> Shawn
>>>>>
>>>>>> The user would be able to select from this set, and the actor would be
>>>>>> internally created in my connector actor and connected to the ports.
>>>>>> Is there an example of an actor that does this internal construction
>>>>>> and connection of actor ports?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>> Chris
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>>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
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