Changing the name of a transformer currently triggers a refresh/update of the transformer. This suggestion is to not trigger the transformer refresh if the only thing that is changed in the transformer parameters is its name.
The benefits of not refreshing (that I can currently think of, I'm sure there are more...):
- feature caches would not become stale
- data sources would not be re-read (e.g. if a FeatureReader transformer name is changed, all source feature schemas are re-read and the output ports are updated)
I realise that these are minor inconveniences but changing this behaviour could dramatically improve iterative development time.
