Open-EO / Open-EO/openeo-python-client
Generic `Connection.process()`?
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Description
While the python client provides a lot of helpers/convenience functions/methods for standard openEO processes, there is sometimes need for generally "starting" a process graph from some non/less-standard openEO process (e.g. user defined processes or remote process definitions).
For that, we currently have Connection.datacube_from_process() (with some variants).
This helper dates back from 2020 (9db6452a8aea9ebcaa3e), when DataCube was roughly the only process graph abstraction/wrapper in the client. Since then however quite some other variants were added, like vectorcube, mlmodel, stac_resource, etc.
This makes datacube_from_process() insufficient:
- its name refers to datacube, while it should be about other types too
- it should return the correct wrapper based on the openEO process return type
I'm considering to add Connection.process() to handle this, but a bit hesitant, because "process" as name is quite generic, and can lead to confusion: does it refer to the noun process or the verb? Does calling it trigger processing (e.g. like there is already Connection.execute()) or is it just about building a process graph?
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Research direction
Start by reading Connection.datacube_from_process() and its variants, then review related issues 844 and the linked driver discussion. The work is not ready to implement until the API naming and wrapper-selection behavior are agreed; done should cover nonstandard process graphs and return the appropriate wrapper for each openEO process return type.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- python
- Domain
- api, backend-api-design
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 28/100