أداة التدفّق
الطاقة أو الماء أو البيانات وهي تنتقل بين المصادر والتخزين والمستهلكين، مع معدّل حي على كل مسار.
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The flow template describes something moving through a system, in four generic slots:
what comes in (inputs), what buffers it (storage), what is traded with the
outside (exchange), and what consumes it (output). Home energy is the
obvious case — solar in, battery buffering, grid import and export, house draw — but water, data
and money map onto the same four slots.
Fields
| Field | Type | Notes |
|---|---|---|
template | string | Required. Must be "flow" |
flow | object | Required. At least one of inputs, output, storage, exchange must be present |
flow.inputs | object[] | Production sources (solar, wind, well). Up to 3 nodes |
flow.output | object | The consumption endpoint — the house, the cluster, the tap |
flow.storage | object | The buffer. The only slot that renders level |
flow.exchange | object | Two-way link with the outside — grid, mains, upstream provider |
rate | float | Required on every node. Instantaneous rate, finite. Signed on the two-way slots: see Behavior below |
name | string | Label override for that node (rename an input to "Wind"). Max 32 characters |
total | float | Cumulative total so far today (kWh, litres). Must not be negative |
level | float | Fill percentage, 0 to 100. Read on the storage slot only |
icon, color | string | SF Symbol (max 128 characters) and a named color or hex for that node |
unit | string | Content-level unit for every rate on the widget (e.g. "W", "L/min"). Max 32 characters |
Example: home energy
{
"content": {
"template": "flow",
"label": "Power",
"subtitle": "Solar · grid · home",
"icon": "point.3.filled.connected.trianglepath.dotted",
"unit": "W",
"accent_color": "mint",
"flow": {
"inputs": [
{ "name": "Solar", "rate": 3200, "total": 12.4, "icon": "sun.max.fill", "color": "yellow" }
],
"output": { "name": "Home", "rate": 1000, "total": 9.8, "icon": "house.fill" },
"storage": { "name": "Battery", "rate": 800, "level": 76, "icon": "battery.75percent", "color": "green" },
"exchange": { "name": "Grid", "rate": -1400, "total": 3.1, "icon": "bolt.fill", "color": "cyan" }
}
}
}Behavior
The sign of rate is what makes the two-way slots readable, and it means different
things per slot. On exchange, positive is inbound (importing from the
grid) and negative is outbound (exporting to it) — the example above is exporting
1400 W. On storage, positive is filling and negative is draining. Inputs and the output are one-directional, so their rates are plain
magnitudes.
Only the slots you send are drawn, so the same template covers a solar array with no battery, a
water main with no local source, or a bare consumption meter. storage additionally
shows its level as a fill indicator; level on any other slot is ignored. total is the running figure for the day and renders under the rate where the widget
family has room.
Merge-patch semantics run deep on objects and shallow on arrays. Patching {"content": {"flow": {"exchange": {"rate": -900}}}} updates just that one rate and leaves the exchange node's name and icon — and the other three slots — untouched. flow.inputs is an array, so it is replaced wholesale: send every input each time you send any of them. Clear a slot with an explicit null.
Wire up slots and flip the signs on the playground to see how each direction renders.