ResourceR - declaring what backends need from the resource tree

[rickwierenga]

@vcjdeboer

To understand what a backend actually needs from the resource tree, you have to read every line of every method, or ask an AI to do it for you. Either way, there’s no real overview or declaration.

why would there need to be?

is this about this post? Plr protobuf - #4 by rickwierenga. If so, backends can read arbitrary information from a resource it gets, its parents, etc. If we define what specific attributes are needed today, you might get serialization working with those specific attributes, but sooner or later this declaration turns into the whole resource tree, so we might as well design for that from the start.