TAP RFC [VOSI]

[Guy Rixon]

I vote for using resources.

I have a TAP implementation that has VOSI both as resources and via  
the REQUEST parameter.

Guy

On 24 Sep 2009, at 15:07, Patrick Dowler wrote:

> On Monday 14 September 2009 02:00:09 Keith Noddle wrote:
>> In consultation with Christophe, I therefore propose that we extend  
>> the
>> TAP RFC to 25th September to allow the above details to come  
>> together.
>
> Last two days, last issue from rfc page:
>
> In the current spec, there are two resources under the base URL and  
> VOSI are
> accessed via one of them:
>
> async
> sync
> sync?REQUEST=getAvailability
> sync?REQUEST=getCapabilities
> sync?REQUEST=getTableMetadata
>
> There is a proposal to access VOSI as resources off the base URL  
> (more pure
> REST style vs standard DAL REQUEST param). The motivation is to move  
> VOSI out
> from under sync so that both async and sync could be made optional  
> (both
> required in PR). The new resource structure would be:
>
> async
> sync
> availability
> capabilities
> tableMetadata
>
> We have had many discussions on this topic, made compromises all  
> around, and
> never reached a unanimous agreement. There are good reasons for both
> approaches. The current draft is consistent with DAL style as  
> embodied in
> SSA1. The proposed makes it cleanly possible to have optional async/ 
> sync
> execution of jobs (currently we require both, but we could relax  
> this in a
> future version of TAP very easily if needed).
>
> To be very clear: both of these work fine, so there is nothing  
> broken and to be
> fixed. This is a stylistic issue (RPC vs REST) and about making  
> plausible
> future changes as easy and painless as possible. Given that, I don't  
> see any
> point in dredging up all the arguments again.
>
> The crude WG concensus is that more people favour using resources  
> over the
> REQUEST parameters, but I would like to call a vote to verify that  
> and will
> change the draft to match the WG decision. If you care, please  
> respond to this
> message and chose one of:
>
> use REQUEST parameter
>
> use resources
>
> I will tally and start rewriting on Monday (28th).
>
> -- 
>
> Patrick Dowler
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