[MOBY-dev] hierarchy and castings in Moby

[Iván Párraga García]

Yes, you caught exactly what I meant.

To have feature 1 would be great because it would be a nice way to
implement the concept of "template" or "generics", but as you say,
perhaps it has more deep implications in the Moby architecture. However
in my modest opinion, a way to handle generic datatypes should be
addressed to allow versatile services.

Before sending the e-mail I was assuming "2" to be right, but MobyParser
in jMoby MoSeS didn't agree with me I think ;-)

Thanks,

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Iván Párraga García
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Molecular Modelling & Bioinformatics Unit
INB - Instituto Nacional de Bioinformática
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Martin Senger escribió:
> You are asking actually two questions (both related):
>
> 1) Is it possible to register a different type for an existing member
> article in an inherited data type? (Assuming that the new different type is
> a sub-class of the existing one).
>
> 2) Is it possible to send data where an article member is actually a
> subclass of the registered one.
>
> The latter question (2) was recently (last month) discussed between Mark,
> Eddie, Paul and me - and I believe most of us expressed willingness to
> change our parsers (including the MoSeS parser) to support it. But the
> decision to allow this kind of data will take place in the Vancouver meeting
> this June.
>
> I am not aware about any discussion of the former question (1). In order to
> do so would require changes in the moby registry I guess.
>
> Martin
>
>