Standardization of Application-related Data

[mariari]

@Michael

As mentioned in the related forum post (see Standardization of Resource data (Label and Value) and to allow multiple standardized and non-standardized data next to each other, label and value should, IMO, be required to be maps in the specs @vveiln @cwgoes.

I think this is a very bad idea. The spec should not enforce what the values the valueRef and labelRef point to.

I imagine many better ways to layout data than a map, and I’ve propsed a different strategy entirely for getting the kinds of generic dispatch and interfaces we want in the a story here:

On the Will to Adapt: A Resource story

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Enforcing it to be a certain way will cause these kinds of strategy to not be possible and lock away any chance at making a generic protocol around the RM.

@Michael

HOWEVER, for now, this is a research problem, and we should do something pragmatic for the devnets.

Standardized lookup would be a pragmatic approach, but it would require these fields to be maps.
I also think that there are other software components besides indexers wanting to inspect standardized application-related data that we haven’t encountered/thought about yet.

I believe this is not a pragmatic approach, if you want to encourage developers with Juvix to currently do it, go ahead. But I’m skeptical if this is what we want in the long run. We are just now trying to get our feet wet trying to make RM applications, and I believe some of the ones we have right now don’t do this as it only complicates the logic for little gain, as the Juvix type system can’t really support this and I believe long term this is not a good strategy to go with.