Child

In object oriented programing, a child is a class that inherits attributes and functions from a parent class. In terms of a tree structure (like the Grooper Node Tree), a "child" node is an object one level below another node.

New child nodes are created underneath a "parent" object in the Node Tree. The parent node determines inheritance for the child node.

• The parent node will always determine what objects can be created as children. For example, a Data Table can only have Data Columns as its children.
• The parent node may simply be a folder containing child objects, as is the case in a Content Model's Local Resources folder.
• The parent node may have a complex inheritance relationship.
  • For example, a Data Type's children Value Readers will pass all results they return to the parent Data Type. Those results will then be collated according to the Data Type's configuration.