Adding some quick ways of spinning up sources and flows with parents.

[cristian-recoseanu]

Would it be possible to have a way of spinning up an nmos-cpp mock which can create sources and flows with parents?

It would be great for testing such scenarios with a Controller product for example.

Thanks!

[garethsb]

I've been thinking about this. I came up with the following graph construction, in which vertices represent signals (IS-04 Sources or Flows) and edges represent the parent relation.

I think it gives a good mix of numbers of children and parents per signal and length of ancestry in both directions.

• Half of all signals will have no children (incoming links), half of the rest only one, half of the rest two, etc.
• Half of all signals will have no parents (outgoing links), half of the rest only one, half of the rest two, etc.
• Half of all signals will have no ancestors, half of the rest only one generation of ancestors, half of the rest two generations, etc.
• Half of all signals will have no descendants, half of the rest only one generation, half of the rest two generations, etc.

I've got an implementation in mind...