RFC: arbitrary transformation for renderables

[Dustin J. Mitchell]

Ah, I see that the distinction is deeper than just allowing asynchronous
returns -- Transform works on other renderables, whereas renderer creates
new renderables (which take the build `b` as an argument).

I like that this allows multiple renderables as input - nice design!

There's a risk of circular dependencies, but I think we can consider that
"user error" and not do anything to try to prevent it (cycle detection
would be pretty hard here!).

So yes, I think this would be a good addition to the property support.

Dustin

On Sun, Oct 4, 2015 at 10:12 AM, Роман Донченко <dpb at corrigendum.ru> wrote:

> I don't see how that would work.
>
> IMO, renderer and Transform are very different things. The former creates
> a new renderable based on a user-defined function; the latter combines
> existing renderables based on a user-defined transformation. They can't
> (and shouldn't) be implemented by the same function.
>
> Dustin J. Mitchell <dustin at v.igoro.us> писал в своём письме Sun, 04 Oct
> 2015 16:55:46 +0300:
>
>
> Could you possibly extend renderer to handle that case?
>>
>> Dustin
>>
>> On Fri, Oct 2, 2015 at 4:17 PM, Роман Донченко <dpb at corrigendum.ru>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Pierre Tardy <tardyp at gmail.com> писал в своём письме Fri, 02 Oct 2015
>>> 00:25:36 +0300:
>>>
>>> Hi Roman,
>>>
>>>>
>>>> There is already a renderer function which is similar simplification of
>>>> the
>>>> renderable pattern.
>>>> You can do
>>>>
>>>> renderer(lambda _: datetime.date.today().isoformat()
>>>> renderer(lambda b: os.path.relpath(p.getProperty('buildir'))
>>>>
>>>> The latter is a little bit more chars than your solution, but probably
>>>> more
>>>> easy to follow.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> I know this, but it doesn't work when the arguments are arbitrary
>>> renderables (since you have to account for the possibility that they
>>> return
>>> a Deferred). The brevity is nice to have, too.
>>>
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