Aggregation

This context dynamically “joins” children of multiple contexts available to a user that requests a list of aggregation context’s children. Aggregation context also forwards action calls to a container context of a user who is calling an action. There is a separate aggregation context for each type of system resources.

For example, an aggregation context for Models combines children of all Models containers. Once its child list is requested under John’s permissions, only Models accessible by John will be added to the child list. If John calls an action from Models aggregation context, the action will be actually executed on John’s own Models container.

A list of available aggregation context’s actions is dynamic and differentiates based on what user is requesting them. It mimics the action list of container context owner by this user. For example, in the aggregation context for Models, John will see actions of his Models container. If an action is executed from an aggregation context, the call is redirected to the above container context.

The above effectively means that if John executes a Create action in its Models aggregation context, he will create a model owner by John. However, if Mary is executing the same action, a new Model will be located in Mary’s model container.

Once some system resources attach to an aggregation context via Resource Validity, they cannot add their actions to the aggregation context.

Context Type: aggregation

Context Name: equal to the name of container contexts aggregated by this context, e.g. “models”

Context Description: equal to the description of the container contexts aggregated by this context, e.g. “Models”

Context Path: aggregation contexts are children of the Root context, so their paths are equal to their names

Context Mask: there is no specific mask that matches all aggregation contexts

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This context has no public variables (properties).

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This context has no public functions.

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Common Events: info (Information)

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