(notes from Community Meeting held on 16/07/14)
VOTT is KETTLE?
Kettle has historically been our server-side JavaScript environment, matching Infusion on the client-side.
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The GPII components which need to adapt to being hosted locally (as part of the same server) or hosted in a distributed way (amongst a group of servers) have their interaction mediated by this dataSource API. This API is as follows:
dataSource.get(directModel, callback) - reads material held at the coordinates "directModel"
dataSource.set(directModel, model, callback) - writes material "model" to the coordinates "directModel"
The "direct model" can be seen as a JSON summary of the contents of a URL. It expresses an "index" into some set of state which can be read and written.
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