Re: Hello LDP Next

On 9 August 2018 at 18:57, Alexandre Bourlier <alexandre@happy-dev.fr>
wrote:

> 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?
>

Great!  Yes, we have met Samy in our Solid chat room.  Is a lot of fun
interacting with him :)

https://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/HTTPFilenameMapping.html

This design issue may be interesting to you, re content types


>
> 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 ?
>>
>>
>>
>> All the best !
>>
>>
>> --
>>
>>
>>
>> Alexandre BOURLIER
>>
>> 06 51 71 08 21
>>
>> http://happy-dev.fr
>>
>
>
> --
>
> Alexandre BOURLIER
> 06 51 71 08 21
> http://happy-dev.fr
>