Re: data streams

On Wed, Jun 3, 2015, at 11:36, Pablo Chacin wrote:
>> Script developers ony need to know the object model for the sensor and
>> display. The details of the underlying protocols are dealt with
>> automatically by the server platform. For this to work, we need a standard
>> way to describe data streams as part of the data model for "things".
> 
> What would be the scope of this definition? Only a model of the stream
> (metadata), or will also propose an api to handle streams. In this later
> case, I would suggest to take a look at what the reactive programming
> community has been developing, for example in RxJS (which is very similar
> to how java 8 handles streams)

Given implementor interest, the Streams API[1] seems like the right
horse to bet on at this point.

--tobie

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[1]: https://streams.spec.whatwg.org/

Received on Wednesday, 3 June 2015 09:46:42 UTC