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409f2f20b8 Invocation: introduce engine-context for dependency injection
...by relying on DI for some effectively global services, notably
the cache provider, the API for building and wiring render nodes
can be simplified to cover only the actual node connectivity
2024-08-03 03:21:59 +02:00
38dd3a738e Invocation: introduce optional output buffer
Doing so directly seems to be a better solution than to inject an OutputBufferProvider;
the latter will still be needed, yet will not be part of the regular weaving pattern,
but used directly at top-level to obtain the output `BuffHandle`, which is then
passed to the `Port::weave()` call
2024-07-31 19:20:44 +02:00
4bda550f68 Invocation: investigate ways to configure the output-info
...still not convinced that this is a good design,
since it seems to subvert the general design to treat one special case.
However, I can't see a good way to address this special case directly
2024-07-30 23:44:55 +02:00
ea183086ca Invocation: Prototyping to clarify buffer type marking
Requirement analysis shows that the ''actual buffer provider'' to use
constitutes yet another independent degree of freedom, which conceivably
must be handled by the Builder internals rather than by the Domain Ontology.

Thus the simple solution to use a `BuffDescr` to mark the type must be augmented
to also allow configuration of the underlying `BufferProvider`, which generates
the descriptor and can later be invoked with this descriptor to ''lock  an actual Buffer.''

In some cases, setup of the buffer types could even be more complicated and require
access to the actual (runtime) invocaton context; such extreme cases however
could be rendered as an extension of the scheme established here,
by storing the (up to now transient) constructor functors persistently.
Which leads to the decision not to care for those extremely complicated
corner cases right now, and thus to construct all buffer descriptors
in the `build()` call
2024-07-24 20:29:37 +02:00
42f8f8d5af Invocation: Prototyping how to setup invocation wiring
...still fighting to find a suitable API to define
how inputs and outputs are connected and mapped to function parameters.

The solution drafted here uses the reshaped `DataBuilder` (≙`lib::SeveralBuilder`)
to add up connections for each »slot«, disregarding the possibility of permutations.
Similar to `NodeBuilder`, a policy template is used to pass down the setup
for an actual custom allocator.
2024-07-24 03:52:44 +02:00