- From: Markus Lanthaler <markus.lanthaler@gmx.net>
- Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2014 16:30:48 +0100
- To: "'Sam Goto'" <goto@google.com>
- Cc: "'Jason Johnson'" <jasjoh@microsoft.com>, "'W3C Web Schemas Task Force'" <public-vocabs@w3.org>, <public-hydra@w3.org>
On Monday, March 03, 2014 11:40 PM, Sam Goto wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 10:34 AM, Markus Lanthaler wrote:
> > On Monday, March 03, 2014 7:11 PM, Sam Goto wrote:
> > > On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 9:36 AM, Markus Lanthaler wrote:
> > > > You'd have specific action handlers attached to the action. Example
> > > > (of a Movie that can be "watched" on android and "bought" via a
> > > > webpage):
> > > >
> > > > {
> > > > @type: Movie
> > > > action: [{
> > > > @type: WatchAction
> > > > handler: {
> > > > @type: AndroidHandler
> > > > }
> > > > }, {
> > > > @type: BuyAction
> > > > handler: {
> > > > @type: WebPageHandler
> > > > }
> > > > }
> > > > ]
> > > > }
> > > >
> > > > How would we go about this using sameAs/alternate?
> > >
> > > You would use a very similar pattern (adapting your previous example):
> > >
> > > {
> > > "@context": "http://schema.org",
> > > "@id": "http://example.com/web/resource",
> > > "alternate": [ {
> > > "@type": "AndroidAppLink",
> > > "operation": {
> > > "@type": "WatchAction"
> > > }, {
> > > "@type": "ApiLink",
> > > "operation": {
> > > "@type": "BuyAction"
> > > }
> > > ]
> > > }
> > >
> > > Hum ... this doesn't seem right to me ... I wasn't expecting actions to
> > > be attached to these "Links", since there is a difference between
> > > "watching" a movie and "watching" a link.
> >
> > Right, I just reused your terminology to show the pattern. I wouldn't
> > call those things *Link as a link is an arc between two resources and
> > not a single resource as these things here are. Would it look better
> > to you if you would replace, e.g. AndroidAppLink with
> > AndroidAppResource?
>
> That's still a bit awkward. You'd want to have a WatchAction attached
> to a Movie, rather than a generic AndroidAppResource (which may refer
> to any type).
Can't it be both at the same time? I hope we are not heading down the httpRange-14 path now :-)
Cheers,
Markus
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