SSAP version in the query response

[Doug Tody]

Hi Igor -

Yes, as we start including version management support, we should identify
the version in all communications including the query, query response,
and getCapabilities (previously known as FORMAT=metadata).

	- Doug


On Wed, 17 May 2006, Igor Chilingarian wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> Don't you think it would be useful to add the SSAP version number into
> the query response of the service, for example as
> additional <INFO> within the <RESOURCE type="results"> element, like
>
> <RESOURCE type="results">
>   <INFO name="QUERY_STATUS" value="OK"/>
>   <INFO name="RESPONSE_VERSION" value="0.91"/>
>   <TABLE>
>      .....
>   </TABLE>
> </RESOURCE>
>
> It might help quite a lot to the developers of VO cient applications, if they
> want to deal with services implementing different versions of the protocols
> (not only SSA).  Including this info in the Registry is not sufficient,
> because (as it was mentioned yesterday) Registries are meant to be used for
> discovering the services, but not for accessing them.
>
> An alternate solution is to put this into FORMAT=METADATA response, but I
> would say that having it in both places is not a bad idea.
>
> With best regards,
> 							Igor
>