Re: Hello LDP Next

Hi Cody, Melvin, Andrew,
Hi everyone,

Thank you so much for your responses, and sorry to reach back to you that
late.

We do have an eye on SoLiD, we even have a trainee (Samy Vincent) working
with them, but we want to implement the standards in a very lightweight
technology that we can easily extend and customize to suit our needs.
The gap required to tweak SoLiD suite is a little too high for us, so we
extended the Django REST Framework API. It allows us to be very agile.

I'll take a look at Stencil.

My first question would be : When I receive a resource, it has properties,
for instance an "avatar" property of type "image/jpeg".
By default, our component will display it as plain text, meaning it will
output its URL to the view.
What I would like is for the component to understand that this "avatar"
property is of type image, so that it displays the image instead of
outputting its URL to the end user.

I see two ways to do this :
 - checking the extension of the property (not very reliable)
 - issuing a HEAD HTTP request and inspect the "Content-Type" header
returned. This doesn't seem desirable as it actually means issuing a
additional request per property which sounds insane performance wise.

I am hoping there is a way for us to convey the property type within the
resource, so our components can directly use the appropriate widgets to
render them.
So far we do the matching manually but it will stop working in a real
federated environment.

Would you have any suggestion regarding the best way to convey the type of
properties, and to interpret them?

Thank you so much for your insights on this.
All the best !

On Mon, Jul 30, 2018 at 4:44 PM Cody Burleson <cody.burleson@base22.com>
wrote:

> Hi, Alexandre,
>
>
>
> I think this is really the only “living” (though not active) group related
> to LDP. So, I think you’ve probably got the right place in terms of being
> able to reach people who may have been involved in the spec or otherwise
> understand it.
>
>
>
> Speaking of web components, check out the Stencil <https://stenciljs.com/>
> web component compiler if you haven’t already. I’ve been pretty impressed
> with it. The folks at Ionic just used it to rewrite all of Ionic to be
> standards compliant Web Components. I don’t work for Ionic or anything; I
> just think they’re Stencil CLI is great.
>
>
>
>
>
> --
>
> Cody Burleson
>
>
>
> *From: *<alexandre.bourlier@gmail.com> on behalf of Alexandre Bourlier <
> alexandre@happy-dev.fr>
> *Date: *Monday, July 30, 2018 at 7:49 AM
> *To: *LDP Next <public-ldpnext@w3.org>
> *Cc: *Sylvain Le Bon <sylvain@happy-dev.fr>
> *Subject: *Hello LDP Next
> *Resent-From: *LDP Next <public-ldpnext@w3.org>
> *Resent-Date: *Monday, July 30, 2018 at 7:49 AM
>
>
>
> Good afternoon gentlemen,
>
>
>
> With Sylvain Le Bon (in cc) that some of you know, we are launching a
> company called Startin'blox.
>
> Startin'blox is a set a web components that implement the LDP standards to
> build interoperable apps more easily.
>
>
>
> What we want it to build an eco-system of such apps. We have got half a
> dozen companies interested.
>
>
>
> We bump into limitations, of the spec itself and also our knowledge and
> understanding of it.
>
> Where would be the good place for us to expose the challenges we are
> facing and be able to ask our questions ?
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>
>
> All the best !
>
>
> --
>
>
>
> Alexandre BOURLIER
>
> 06 51 71 08 21
>
> http://happy-dev.fr
>


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Alexandre BOURLIER
06 51 71 08 21
http://happy-dev.fr