Roger Menday <Roger.Menday@uk.fujitsu.com> wrote on 11/19/2012 01:49:16
PM:
> ...
> > REST would require you to expose this in a way that clients can
construct
> > those URIs at runtime, just by interacting with the LDP server. since
you
> > cannot assume any specifics about the back-end, all you could do is
have a
> > framework for how servers can expose additional interaction
affordances,
> > in this case probably through a URI template. and then there would be
a
> > magical parameter that would be entirely opaque to LDP, that would be
> > exposed by the LDP service. we are currently just in the process of
> > designing such a "query template" media type
>
> I would be interested in seeing that ... where is this design at
themoment ?
>
> I think that something link driven must be possible. i.e. like on a
> shopping site, where the facets change according to which other
> facets are selected previously, etc etc ... I think that this kind
> of mechanism can be copied, such that the query strings can be "built
up".
I was just about to ask: who's "we" in your sentence, Erik? This is
certainly not we, the LDP WG. :-)
>
> regards,
> Roger
>
> > (so that exposing query
> > capabilities becomes a little bit easier because there's a standard
way of
> > doing it), but afaict, there is no such thing around at this point in
time.
> >
> > cheers,
> >
> > dret.
> >
>
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Arnaud Le Hors - Software Standards Architect - IBM Software Group