RE: issue 8200: new proposal

Ø  I'd pefer something like:
        When this element is not present, the endpoint MUST return all available metadata accessable to this particular sender.

The part "When this element is not present, the endpoint MUST return all available metadata" seems sufficient, since in practice, the service will only return metadata that the user is privileged to know. Thanks.

From: Doug Davis [mailto:dug@us.ibm.com]
Sent: Friday, December 11, 2009 10:16 AM
To: Ram Jeyaraman
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Subject: RE: issue 8200: new proposal


the problem with this wording is that it still allows a service to return zero metadata sections and still be spec legal - but not very interoperable.
I'd pefer something like:
        When this element is not present, the endpoint MUST return all available metadata accessable to this particular sender.

thanks
-Doug
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12/10/2009 05:44 PM

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RE: issue 8200: new proposal







How about if the current definition of 'absence' implies the following [2]?

Essentially, I have grafted the ws-mex-all definition into the definition of the 'absence' behavior.

Thanks.

[2]

[Body]/mex:GetMetadata/mex:Dialect
When this repeating OPTIONAL element is present, the response MUST include only Metadata Sections corresponding to the Dialect specified by the IRI attribute; if the receiver does not have any Metadata Sections of the indicated Dialect, the response MUST include zero Metadata Sections.
When this element is not present, the endpoint SHOULD return all known metadata. The endpoint has the option to optimize the format in which it returns the data.
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Subject: RE: issue 8200: new proposal


I can go for deleting it if absence == all.  What's there now isn't "all" - its "all that the service thinks is important" - there's a difference.  IMO, the current defn is useless.

thanks
-Doug
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12/09/2009 06:21 PM


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We also need to mention that when the "ws-mex-all" Dialect URI is used in a GetMetadata request, the Identifier and Content attributes MUST be absent.

Thinking a bit more about this, why not just entirely delete the "ws-mex-all" Dialect URI, since the absence of a Dialect in a request already implies retrieving all [1] metadata?

Thanks.

[1]

[Body]/mex:GetMetadata/mex:Dialect
When this repeating OPTIONAL element is present, the response MUST include only Metadata Sections corresponding to the Dialect specified by the IRI attribute; if the receiver does not have any Metadata Sections of the indicated Dialect, the response MUST include zero Metadata Sections.
When this element is not present, the endpoint SHOULD return all the types of metadata that it deems necessary to communicate with it.
From: public-ws-resource-access-request@w3.org<mailto:public-ws-resource-access-request@w3.org> [mailto:public-ws-resource-access-request@w3.org]<mailto:[mailto:public-ws-resource-access-request@w3.org]> On Behalf Of Doug Davis
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Subject: issue 8200: new proposal


Per my AI, here's an amended proposal for 8200:
- remove the "...-mex-all" Dialect URI from the Identifier table and the Metadata Format table
- for the definition of the ..-mex-all dialect, replace:
This value returns all known metadata. The endpoint has the option to optimize the format in which it returns the data.
with:
This special dialect IRI indicates that all known metadata dialects are to be returned.  This Dialect IRI is meant to only be used in GetMetadata request messages, not as a Dialect IRI in a mex:MetadataSection element, as there is no actual metadata format associated with it.  The endpoint has the option to optimize the format in which it returns the data.

thanks
-Doug
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