Re: Your comments on Device Description Repository Simple API ( LC-1955)

 Dear José Manuel Cantera ,

The Mobile Web Initiative Device Description Working Group has reviewed
the comments you sent [1] on the Last Call Working Draft [2] of the Device
Description Repository Simple API published on 4 Apr 2008. Thank you for
having taken the time to review the document and to send us comments!

The Working Group's response to your comment is included below, and has
been implemented in the new version of the document available at:
http://www.w3.org/2005/MWI/DDWG/drafts/api/080525.

Please review it carefully and let us know by email at
public-ddwg-comments@w3.org if you agree with it or not before 5 June
2008. In case of disagreement, you are requested to provide a specific
solution for or a path to a consensus with the Working Group. If such a
consensus cannot be achieved, you will be given the opportunity to raise a
formal objection which will then be reviewed by the Director during the
transition of this document to the next stage in the W3C Recommendation
Track.

Thanks,

For the Mobile Web Initiative Device Description Working Group,
Matt Womer
W3C Staff Contact

 1.
http://www.w3.org/mid/93AA9E47B82F684A868C217766F489050397FB9EEE@EXCLU2K7.hi.inet
 2. http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-DDR-Simple-API-20080404/


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Your comment on 4.2.4 PropertyValue Interface:
> Regarding the PropertyValues interface,
> 
> there are no convenience methods on that interface that allow to
> retrieve PropertyValues without dealing with a PropertyRef.
> 
> However the Service interface has a lot of convenience methods that
> avoid dealing with PropertyRef if necessary.
> 
> This seems to be a bit contradictory in the design of the API.
> 
> Proposed Amendment:
> 
> + Add a getValue(localPropertyName) method
> + Add a getValue(localPropertyName,localAspectName,vocabularyIRI)
> method
> 
> to the PropertyValues interface
> 
> ---
> 
> Jose Manuel Cantera
> Senior Technologist
> 
> Telefónica I+D


Working Group Resolution (LC-1955):
The "convenience" methods of the DDR Simple API are contained within the
Service interface, with which you may create the PropertyRef needed by the
PropertyValues.getValue() method. There is no loss of functionality by not
having a convenient version of getValue() in the PropertyValues
interface.

A typical usage would be: pv.getValue(s.newPropertyRef("propName"))

Instances of PropertyRef created via the Service interface may be cached
for subsequent use in calls to getValue().

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Received on Sunday, 25 May 2008 20:22:28 UTC