Re: RDF Thrift : A binary format for RDF data

Do not use x-
It was thought a good idea, now not.  It just leads to pain when you drop or x- (or decide never to)


Where is the actual on the wire format for thrift defined? Does it look like ANS/1 ?

Tim


On 2014-08 -15, at 13:08, Hugh Glaser <hugh@glasers.org> wrote:

> Thanks, Richard.
> Yeah.
> But it can be useful if you agree to mint the same MIME type as other people :-)
> Would one use "application/rdf+thrift” or "application/rdf+x-thrift”, for example?
> If I remember correctly, the x- usually indicates an unregistered type, but if the type is expected to get registered one day, then people often use the x-less one in anticipation, for future-proofing.
> 
> It is especially useful to use an agreed type if you want to consume other peoples’ services/data (or let them consume yours).
> Of course I realise that is rather unusual in the SemWeb world, but it does happen ;-)
> 
> Best
> Hugh
> On 15 Aug 2014, at 17:15, Richard Lewis <richard.lewis@gold.ac.uk> wrote:
> 
>> Hi Hugh,
>> 
>> While there is a process for registering media types, it's not
>> necessary for media types to be deposited in some central store in
>> order to build hypermedia applications using them. In fact, it's quite
>> common to mint media types specifically for certain applications.
>> 
>> If your application design follows RESTful principles, there will be
>> an application state (or probably multiple states) in which the client
>> can discover the media types of resources he/she may want to
>> retrieve. So if you want to make "application/rdf+thrift" (for
>> example) available for some resources in your application, you can go
>> right ahead; just make sure you tell the client is told that it's
>> available.
>> 
>> Just my 2p.
>> 
>> Richard
>> 
>> At Fri, 15 Aug 2014 16:36:44 +0100,
>> Hugh Glaser wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi Andy,
>>> Thanks.
>>> Looks very useful.
>>> 
>>> This may be a stoopid question… :-)
>>> As I am able to use this for network data exchange, presumably I can request it using conneg over http when resolving URIs.
>>> So I would need a MIME type.
>>> I see application/x-thrift is required in http://wiki.apache.org/thrift/ThriftIntegrationConventions?highlight=%28application%2Fx-thrift%29
>>> 
>>> 
>>> So now the possibly stooped bit…
>>> Is there a recommended variant for RDF-Thrift?
>>> Because I might want to ask for the Thrift version of another content-type, such as non-LD JSON.
>>> 
>>> It looks like the same problem as RDF+XML, since I might want another XML content-type of the document.
>>> 
>>> Best
>>> Hugh
>>> 
>>> On 15 Aug 2014, at 15:19, Andy Seaborne <andy@apache.org> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> RDF Binary using Apache Thrift
>>>> 
>>>> This is a binary format for RDF graphs, datasets and SPARQL result
>>>> sets that is fast to process. [1]
>>>> 
>>>> http://afs.github.io/rdf-thrift/
>>>> 
>>>> includes the on-the-wire description as well as an implementation.
>>>> 
>>>> Using Apache Thrift makes it considerably less work to integrate
>>>> into existing systems and toolkits, or to build custom
>>>> processing. [2]
>>>> 
>>>> 	Comments and feedback welcome,
>>>> 	Andy
>>>> 
>>>> [1] The largest gain is on reading data, with rates x3 faster than
>>>> parsing N-Triples.
>>>> 
>>>> [2] Apache thrift has a large number of implementations across a
>>>> range of languages: http://wiki.apache.org/thrift/LibraryFeatures
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