[GEARPUMP-84] Propose to define processor types

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 0.8.0
• Component/s: services
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Kam Kasravi
• Created: 21/Apr/16 16:45
• Updated: 17/May/16 07:43

Description

Currently we all call them processors, but as you know, processors can be sightly different. Here are the types I see:

1. Only has outputs, no inputs (data source)
2. Only has inputs, no outputs (data sink)
3. Has both inputs and outputs
   If this terminology makes sense, it will help user to understand the infrastructure of an application more clearly. And dashboard can use processor types to do:

1. Render DAG nodes in different colors
2. Filter particular processor types for inspection