Buffer extensibility

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Assessment

Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
rust
Domain
backend

Research direction

Start by reading the existing Buffer and Provider concepts and tracing how a Buffer is used when building a workflow. Define what the proposed trait must express, how custom buffer types would integrate with workflow construction, and how completion would be verified; the issue does not name files or tests.

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Description

enhancement

There are many different strategies that can be used to buffer data with many tradeoffs and niche use cases.

Right now the Buffer concept is relatively simple and rigid compared to Provider. We should consider introducing a trait that can express the role of a buffer and allow users to implement their own custom buffer types that can be used when building a workflow.

Dominant language
Rust
Stars
75
Forks
18
Avg merge
12d 12h
Merged PRs (30d)
3

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