namespaceentity

Namespaceentity is a generic concept used in information systems to represent a named scope that contains identifiers. It is not tied to a single standard but appears in programming languages, metadata catalogs, and data models to prevent name collisions and to enable qualified references.

In software design, a namespace entity serves as a container with attributes such as name, path, parent, and metadata. It supports operations to resolve an unqualified name to a fully qualified symbol, and to manage the lifecycle of the namespace itself.

In data modeling and APIs, a namespace entity might model a hierarchical namespace catalog with properties like id, name, alias, description, version, creation and modification timestamps, and access control information. It may relate to child namespaces and to the entities contained within.

Common features include registry-like storage, versioning, permissions, serialization (JSON, XML), and APIs for create, read, update, delete, list, and move.

Examples include a multi-tenant system where each tenant has a top-level namespace, or a programming language where modules or packages function as runtime namespaces.

Related concepts include namespaces, scoping, qualified names, symbol tables, and registries.