SAMP document next stage

[Luigi Paioro]

Dear Mark and all,

  thank you for having updated so quickly the SAMP document with the 
changes post-Baltimore.

I have modified SAMPy in respect to item 2 (item 1 I think is not worth 
changing the code) while item 3 was already supported since the previous 
version. I've tested SAMPy with JSAMP and it passed all tests, therefore 
I assume they are fully interoperable.

As usual you can download the latest version of SAMPy (alpha 4) here:

http://cosmos.iasf-milano.inaf.it/luigi/projects/vo/samp/latest/

Let me know if you have any problem with this new version.


Luigi


Mark Taylor ha scritto:
> Dear SAMP people,
> 
> I have posted a new version of the SAMP document on the wiki at
> 
>    http://www.ivoa.net/cgi-bin/twiki/bin/view/IVOA/SampDoc
> 
> This incorporates the changes we discussed at Baltimore, specifically
> (as listed in Appendix B of the document):
> 
>    1. Characters allowed in string type restricted to avoid problems
>       transmitting over XML; was 0x01-0x7f, now 0x09, 0x0a, 0x0d,
>       0x20-0x7f (3.3).
>    2. Return values of callAll and notifyAll operations changed;
>       they now return information about clients receiving the messages
>       (3.11).
>    3. New hub administrative message samp.hub.disconnect (5.4.1).
>    4. Empty placeholder appendix on SAMP/PLASTIC interoperability removed.
>    5. Wording clarified and made more explicit in a few places.
> 
> as well as one or two other cosmetic changes.
> 
> I hope to ask Tom to promote this to PR next week.  If anyone has any 
> changes or corrections to suggest, please mail to this list
> within the next week (by the end of Wed 19 Nov).
> 
> Item 2 above requires changes to hub implementations (most likely not
> change to applications).  Item 1 probably does not require changes to code.
> Item 3 presents the possibility for new functionality.
> 
> I have modified the JSAMP toolkit in respect of items 1, 2 and 3 above.
> This is not currently in public release, but a copy is available at
>    ftp://andromeda.star.bris.ac.uk/pub/star/jsamp/jsamp-0.3-.jar
> for testing.  The test suite now tests for correct implementation as 
> regards
> items 2 and 3 above - it would be nice if one of the other hubs (Luigi?) 
> could get updated to pass the new tests (i.e. implement at least item 2) 
> so that we can fully satisfy the two-implementations
> rule prior to submitting this for PR.
> 
> Mark
> 

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