Re: [cti-cybox] Email Object

["Bret Jordan (CS)" <Bret_Jordan@symantec.com>]

Based on this, I really think we need to change this.  

Bret 

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> On Sep 19, 2016, at 12:33 PM, John-Mark Gurney <jmg@newcontext.com> wrote:
> 
> Jordan, Bret wrote this message on Thu, Sep 15, 2016 at 14:45 +0000:
>> For the record, I really dislike it when a property can be one of two types depending on the value of some other property. For example, we have the following two properties:
>> 
>> "is_multipart" boolean
>> "body" string or list of type mime-part-type
>> 
>> So if "is_multipart" is false then "body" is a [string]  however, if "is_multipart" is true then "body" is a [list of type mime-part-type].
>> 
>> It seems like a much simpler way of doing this is to have two properties for the body...
>> 
>> 1) body
>> 2) body_multipart
>> 
>> If you still want the boolean property of is_multipart, that is fine.  But lets not overload properties based on the value of another property.  PLEASE...
> 
> I agree that these should be split.
> 
> Overloading types will complicate patterning.  How do we handle a pattern
> when the type mismatches?
> 
> Such as the following when body is text?
> email-message:body[1].file-name = 'foobar.txt'
> 
> -- 
> John-Mark
> 
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