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SynBioDex / pySBOL3

Native python implementation of SBOL 3.0 specification
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Be careful with automatic (and hidden) online validation and conversion #292

Open tcmitchell opened 3 years ago

tcmitchell commented 3 years ago

Some users of pySBOL3 may not want their data/information shared online via the use of online validation or conversion utilities. Consider how to protect users by default. Should online validation/conversion be off by default and require that users explicitly enable it? This could have the side benefit of allowing the library to run in disconnected environments.

But how will users know to enable online validation? And how do we make enabling online validation easy?

This will also require documentation to explain when and how online tools are used by the library so that users can control those uses.

jakebeal commented 2 years ago

pySBOL2 now supports offline conversion, and it conversion is run via SBOL-utilities, it is now offline by default. Do we need to do anything else in order to resolve this?