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While the python client provides a lot of helpers/convenience functions/methods for standard openEO processes, there is sometimes need for generally "starting" a process graph from some non/less-standard openEO process (e.g. user defined processes or remote process definitions).
For that, we currently have Connection.datacube_from_process() (with some variants).
This helper dates back from 2020 (9db6452), when DataCube was roughly the only process graph abstraction/wrapper in the client. Since then however quite some other variants were added, like vectorcube, mlmodel, stac_resource, etc.
This makes datacube_from_process() insufficient:
- its name refers to datacube, while it should be about other types too
- it should return the correct wrapper based on the openEO process return type
I'm considering to add Connection.process() to handle this, but a bit hesitant, because "process" as name is quite generic, and can lead to confusion: does it refer to the noun process or the verb? Does calling it trigger processing (e.g. like there is already Connection.execute()) or is it just about building a process graph?
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