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33c8f1c5b1 Invocation: investigate forwarding an output data block
This investigation started out as solving an already solved problem...
I'll continue this as a design exercise non the less.

__Some explanation__: To achieve the goal of invoking a Node end-to-end,
the gap between the `Port` API, the `ProcNode` API and the `RenderInvocation` must be closed.
This leads to questions of API design: ''what core operation should the `ProcNode` API expose?''
 * is `ProcNode` just a forwarding / delegating container and becoming redundant?
 * or does the API rather move in the direction of an ''Exit Node''?

This leads to the question how the opened `OutputSlot` can be exposed as a `BuffHandle`
to allow to set off the recursive Node invocation. As it turns out, the onerous for this step
lies on the actual `OutputSlot` implementation, since the API and output protocol already requires
to expose a `BuffHandle`. Yet there is no "real" implementation available, just a Mock setup based
on `DiagnosticBufferProvider`, which obviously can just be passed-through.

Which leaves me with mixed feelings. For one it is conveninent to skip this topic for now,
but on the other hand the design of `BufferProvider` does not seem well suited for such an proxying task.
Thus I decided to explore this aspect in the form of a prototyping test....
2024-12-23 02:31:29 +01:00