getRegistry question

[KevinBenson]

Ahhh your right Guy, forgot about the VOSI having what that exact 
interface method, for registry it would need to be implemented.  I know 
current VOSI says "should" and possibly a note on the RI to say there is 
this getRegistration interface method that is implemented as part of the 
VOSI.

If your curious of a use case scenario I was thinking of a client that 
might have certain controls turned on if hooked up to a registry that 
supports xquery and turned off if not.  Or just a client that needs to 
make sure it is hooked up to a registry that has XQuery before it is 
able to continue or function.

cheers,
Kevin

Guy Rixon wrote:
> Kevin,
>
> do you mean the getRegistration operation from VOSI? If so, then I assume that
> a registry web-service would have this method, but it wouldn't be composed as
> part if the RI. Instead, the registry service would aggregate VOSI and RI. I
> would expect a registry to return the resource document that it would have
> submitted if arranging to be harvested.
>
> Cheers,
> Guy
>
> On Thu, 25 May 2006, KevinBenson wrote:
>
>   
>> Have one question.
>> 1.)  Do you think we need a getRegistry method to the RI?  Currently we
>> do "not" have a getRegistry interface method.  It would be quite simple,
>> it would have no parameters just simply return the main registry type
>> for "that" registry.  If my memory is correct I think we might have had
>> it a very long time ago to the RI, but for some reason we dropped it.
>> The use would be for clients to determine if XQuery is supported or
>> extendedSearches can be done.   I guess optionally they can sort of get
>> this information from the RofR (not sure how the client would determine
>> which registry is nearby).  This seems like quite an easy interface
>> method to add and could be quite useful.
>>
>> cheers,
>> Kevin
>>
>>     
>
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