Pseudo nodes are unclickable

[tomwilkie]

Is this intentional?

[davkal]

we don't have any NodeMetadata for them, so nothing to render in the side panel

This was also my reasoning. Nothing to see there.
Under which circumstances is there any meta data?

[tomwilkie]

Pseudo nodes in the containers view have a ton of metadata.

On Tuesday, 16 June 2015, David [email protected] wrote:

we don't have any NodeMetadata for them, so nothing to render in the side
panel

This was also my reasoning. Nothing to see there.
Under which circumstances is there any meta data?

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[peterbourgon]

Pseudonodes are nodes we have to invent because we have them as a destination in an edge, but don't have any other data (metadata) for them. If a node has metadata, by definition it is not a pseudonode.

[tomwilkie]

Are you suggesting uncontained should not be a pseudo node?

Note that even under you definition, we still have useful info we should
show the user - for instance, the Internet pseudo node has a mass be list
of ip addresses we could show, and other pseudo nodes has port numbers we
could show.

On Saturday, 20 June 2015, Peter Bourgon [email protected] wrote:

By definition pseudonodes are nodes we have to invent because we have them
as a destination in an edge, but don't have any other data (metadata) for
them. If a node has metadata, by definition it is not a pseudonode.

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[peterbourgon]

Agh, uncontained. Right. For the record, we're abusing the pseudo flag for that one.

But, point taken. There's always going to be some information we can display, actually.

[davkal]

Which nodes in which topologies do not have any data?

I'm asking because we could show an actionable message like install a probe in the details panel in that case.

[tomwilkie]

Not much in the process topology to show. And "the internet" never has any info. Really its only the uncontained node that has meaningful info I think. OTOH paul's recent connections stuff might work for all pseudo nodes...