UWS 1.1 alternative, WAIT

[Dave Morris]

Hiya,

On 2014-06-18 08:07, Paul Harrison wrote:
> On 2014-06 -17, at 13:34, Dave Morris <dave.morris at metagrid.co.uk> 
> wrote:
> 
> I think that there is a reasonable argument for making the blocking
> endpoint /jobs/{jobid} with the ?WAIT parameter from your earlier
> suggestion in this thread - I cannot see a big downside to that at the
> moment (apart from making it a little more difficult for clients to
> detect lack of 1.1 capability)

You had convinced me that a separate endpoint made more sense.

You are right - discovery would be a problem.

Following Brian's email about XML validation and major/minor versions 
etc. I've been thinking about reliability and robustness in our designs.

We already have a perfectly good discovery mechanism, but we tend not to 
use it.

Should we just make this a new capability ?

The UWS-1.1 specification defines the behaviour of the blocking 
endpoint, and says that IF a service wants to provide this, then they 
should list it as a capability using [this] URI ?

Cheers,
Dave

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Dave Morris
Software Developer
Wide Field Astronomy Unit
Institute for Astronomy
University of Edinburgh
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