Glossary

baton

An object passed to processors in a pipeline. See Using batons.

key_path

A string that contains dot-separated path segments that are used to look up values from nested dictionaries.

See also

piped.util.dict_get_path() and piped.util.dict_set_path()

pipeline

A processor graph that can process batons.

processor

A processor is an object that can process a baton.

processor graph

A graph of processors. Processors are connected to each other in a graph structure in order to form a pipeline.

provider

A provider is an object that add some functionality to the system.

See also

Provider reference documentation is located under Available providers.