RE: ACTION-58 Look into issues surrounding the use of the 'any' type in the IDL

The analogy of a "file handle" was fairly close to what we believed the
context key could be. We don't insist that file handles are integers
(though they often are implemented this way). We merely say that they
are of a FileHandle type and can be used to interact with files once the
files have been located by some other means (e.g. the file path and
name).

---Rotan.

-----Original Message-----
From: public-ddwg-request@w3.org [mailto:public-ddwg-request@w3.org] On
Behalf Of Anders Ekstrand
Sent: 27 August 2007 20:26
To: Matt Womer
Cc: public-ddwg@w3.org
Subject: RE: ACTION-58 Look into issues surrounding the use of the 'any'
type in the IDL


Hi Matt,

> I think of the Context Key IS the opaque handle itself.  It is a
> handle to the "Context", which is an implementation specific
> structure in and of itself.

I think that your view above is what we agreed on within the task force.

You get the handle after searching by Brand + Model, User Agent String,
certain characteristics or whatever we might come up with in the future.
The handle in then only meaningful within this specific instance of a
device repository, and cannot be used to "grab" a device profile in
another instance.

That how far we came, as I remember it.

Best Regards - Anders

Received on Monday, 27 August 2007 20:38:40 UTC