[MOBY-dev] Re: [unclassified] graphs again...

[Martin Senger]

> IMO - a service that registers itself as consuming * object in the N
> namespace can only be fed by a service that produces an object in the
> N namespace (not by a service that produces objects in * namespace).
>
   Putting together this opinion and the previous one:

>>   * if a service claims that it has an input of type "X" but does not
>>define any namespace for it, then any service with output of type "X",
>>even if specified with some namespaces, can connect to it?
>
> this is correct.  Absense of namespace indicates that namespace is
> irrelevant to the service.

   ...may I conclude that these are the combinations and their allowances:

   */Object  -->  */Object   is allowed to connect
   */Object  -->  N/Object   is not allowed to connect
   N/Object  -->  */Object   is allowed to connect
   N/Object  -->  N/Object   is allowed to connect

   Thanks,
   Martin

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