Hosted extractor mapping multitle stored examples

Hi ​@Felipe Ortega,

 Thank you for submitting this product idea. A couple of clarifying questions, if I may:

• So you're proposing something akin to an "example store" where you can upload example mapping definitions for your own use?
  • Who (else) must have access to these uploaded examples (what kinds of user roles)?
• Why is a "simple" - for example - github.com repository for your company not sufficient for the same purpose
  • I.e. Why is it more convenient to have this stored in CDF, and not a "for purpose" code repository?
  • Or, more simply put: What problem are you solving by Storing this in CDF vs a 3rd party code repository?
• This sounds pedantic (sorry!); What do you mean by "validate them" in this case?

Got this menssage via email from ​@Thomas Sjølshagen :

Hi ​ @Felipe Ortega , Thank you for submitting this product idea. A couple of clarifying questions, if I may: So you're proposing something akin to an "example store" where you can upload example mapping definitions for your own use? Who (else) must have access to these uploaded examples (what kinds of user roles)? Why is a "simple" - for example - github.com repository for your company not sufficient for the same purpose I.e. Why is it more convenient to have this stored in CDF, and not a "for purpose" code repository? Or, more simply put: What problem…

• Yes, an example store is a good way to name it.
• I think is a good that examples are “shared” with the project.
• The main goal of having them in CDF is the possibility to validate all examples at once.
• In our user case, we have at least 3 different message formats, so every time I update the custom format, I had to copy / paste from our “example store” to the UI, as many examples as we have, to validate it

This sounds pedantic (sorry!); What do you mean by "validate them" in this case

The validation is that he output of the message comply with cognite message format

example → mapping→ validated document

• I.e. Why is it more convenient to have this stored in CDF, and not a "for purpose" code repository?
• Or, more simply put: What problem are you solving by Storing this in CDF vs a 3rd party code repository?

If we store this outside CDF (for example, a github repo), how are forced to copy/paste the examples everytime to test them.in the UI.
 

Thanks for the responses. I’m going to leave it active and collect interest from other users (here on Hub) before I can make any promises (fixed development resources + plenty of features to build = have to prioritize).

Will circle back and update as the idea progresses through our process.