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Entity Inheritence

[RobertMcArdle]

The ability to create your own entity is great, but obviously you then need to create any transform for it yourself.

Sometimes however a new entity is very similar to an old one

Take for example a Google Talk account - it will be in the form of an email address

It would be great to be able to create a new Entity type called "GoogleAccount", with the Google Icon, google specific transforms etc - but still having access to all the existing transforms for "Email" entities. This is almost like GoogleAccount is a subset of Email

Another example would be a Skype account inherited from the Phrase entity

[AndrewMacPherson]

Hi Robert,

I like the idea, it works well, unfortunately our entities do not currently offer inheritence of this sort.

The way we usually work with this is another transform that simply converts this entity to the other type in order to have those transforms available.

So it would work something like:
* url (or however you start) -> GTalk account
* Gtalk Account -> Email Address
* Email Address -> Verify_PGP (or other transforms)

I definitely would be interested in seeing these transforms you speak of if you have them (skype/gtalk)

-AM