On 10/31/2014 2:40 PM, Heiko Braun wrote:

Haralds proposal was designed to be orthogonal to the concepts we currently have and embed within existing protocols and API. The idea is to build something straightforward to solve real problems.

A query language sounds nice, but I don't really see how it relates to problems described in the former proposal. If you want to discuss that idea further, I would suggest to move it to another thread.

A lot of your particular problem is with GWT, and that is indeed a topic for another thread.

Herald's proposal is a good one and people would want to do more with it than just solve your particular dilemma. Thus, it eventually becomes more and more like a query language.

My point was just that if Herald is interested, he could easily do this on the client side and move it to the server side after it matures.

But if Brian wants to plow ahead on the server side that's good too.

On 31 Oct 2014, at 17:03, Stan Silvert <ssilvert@redhat.com> wrote:

Taken to its logical conclusion, this would become a full-fledged query language.

You could just create a client-side library for it and use that as the "language" develops. I think that would be a safe thing to do before committing it as part of the supported server side interface.

How much of a problem would this be if it were not for GWT's callback-hell? It's my understanding that GWT is fixing that?