Re: CSV/TSV results test cases and suggested adaption of JSON results test cases

On 07/08/11 20:43, Axel Polleres wrote:
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> On 7 Aug 2011, at 20:50, Gregory Williams wrote:
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>> On Aug 7, 2011, at 2:21 PM, Axel Polleres wrote:
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>>> 1) I added (my understanding of) what CSV and TSV test cases should return in
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>>>   http://www.w3.org/2009/sparql/docs/tests/data-sparql11/csv-tsv-res/
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>>> the test cases are:
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>>>    http://www.w3.org/2009/sparql/docs/tests/data-sparql11/csv-tsv-res/manifest#csv01
>>>    http://www.w3.org/2009/sparql/docs/tests/data-sparql11/csv-tsv-res/manifest#tsv01
>>>    http://www.w3.org/2009/sparql/docs/tests/data-sparql11/csv-tsv-res/manifest#csv01
>>>    http://www.w3.org/2009/sparql/docs/tests/data-sparql11/csv-tsv-res/manifest#tsv02
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>>> these haven't been produced automatically, so please check.
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>> All of these use the SELECT * form. If the variables happen to be projected in a different order than the one assumed in the csv/tsv result files, should the tests fail?
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> Well, good point, I'd say! In http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-sparql-XMLres/ it says:
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> "The order of the variable names in the sequence is the order of the variable names given to the argument of the SELECT statement in the SPARQL query. If SELECT * is used, the order of the names is undefined."
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> Likewise, for json, there's a sentence in http://www.w3.org/2009/sparql/docs/json-results/json-results-lc.html:
> "The order of variable names should correspond to the variables in the SELECT clause of the query, unless the query is of the form SELECT * in which case order is not significant.
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> However, I realize that there is no respective remark (I guess it should be the same for CVS and TSV) in
>   http://www.w3.org/2009/sparql/docs/csv-tsv-results/results-csv-tsv.html
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> Can/shall we change that for this pub round still? Opinions?

Too late - the final version of the FP doc has been cut and passed to 
W3C for publication. (TC 26 July 2011 - i have corrected editorial 
mistakes in processing for publication)

I haven't heard anything back : what's the status of this?

http://www.w3.org/2009/sparql/docs/csv-tsv-results/WD-csv-tsv-2011-08.html

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>>> 2) this brought me to some ommission in the json-res test cases ... where I
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>>> (note that I alsoe renamed the output files from .srj to .json).
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>> Why?
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> Hmmm, ouch - confused, I thought I remembered that someone mentioned that .json was the standard suffix for JSON files and this should be changed, but actually it the discussion was the other way around [1]..... aaaargh. Sorry&  thanks, changed back to ".srj" .

Note: this was never registered as far as I know.

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> Should ".csv" and ".tsv" then remain as is, or o we want an own suffix there as well (such as e.g. ".src" and ".srt" )

That would need MIME type registration.

They are much more plain and proper uses of CSV and TSV.  JSON is using 
JSON to record something else (a result set).

	Andy

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> Axel
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> 1. http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-rdf-dawg/2011JanMar/0173.html
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>> thanks,
>> .greg
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