TAP RFC (inline UPLOAD)

[Patrick Dowler]

On Monday 14 September 2009 02:00:09 Keith Noddle wrote:
> TAP RFC to 25th September to allow the above details to come together.

on issue #7 (inline table upload) Doug and Tom have proposed a solution as 
follows:

caller would specify the UPLOAD parameter with pair of value, e.g.

UPLOAD=table_name,inline:some_table_name

where "table_name" is the name of the table as used in the query (eg 
TAP_UPLOAD.table_name) and the URI uses a special scheme "inline" to denote 
that the content is inline with name="some_table_name". Thus, "inline" URI 
scheme will be described (in the spec) in the UPLOAD parameter section.

Reminder: one can already use things like:

UPLOAD=mytable,http://examplecom/some_table.xml

or

UPLOAD=mytable,vos://example/some_table.xml


Have I got this right? Any objections/problems to this fix?

Can someone implement a crude test to see that it is a workable upload 
solution? before the TCG review? I am not sure when we (CADC) will get to 
implementing upload...

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