[vos-d] new property design

[Reed Hedges]

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Peter Amstutz wrote:

> For each above numerical type, a vector version is also defined, so:
> property:vector.int

Just one level of vectorness?



> property:text.ascii
> property:text.utf-8  (not much UTF-8 handling inside of VOS yet though)\\

Since ASCII is basically a subset of UTF-8, right, I'd just have text.


> property:string  (for storing "anything else" -- do actually want this?)

If so I'd name it something else; just an opaque set bytes you can use
when what you have doesn't fit into any datatype or mime type, right?  I
guess you could always just invent a mime type for you data, just call
it application.x-my-weird-type or use the "vnd" MIME prefix thing.



> I should mention that if we wanted, the property code could provide a
> reader for, say, png data, so that you could then access the image data
> (perhaps even with an abstract Image2D* or Model3D* interface).  Just a
> thought.

The return of the son of the bride of typechain!!

Reed

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