[OASIS Issue Tracker] (CAMP-200) Extensibility of Attribute Types

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Anish Karmarkar commented on CAMP-200:
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Mike suggests that we defer this issue

> Extensibility of Attribute Types
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>
>                 Key: CAMP-200
>                 URL: https://issues.oasis-open.org/browse/CAMP-200
>             Project: OASIS Cloud Application Management for Platforms (CAMP) TC
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: Spec
>    Affects Versions: 1.2
>            Reporter: Michael Norman
>            Assignee: Anish Karmarkar
>
> We are looking at a scenario where the client is able to render based off the type definitions in the API and not off the specification of the API or its extensions.
> Extensions may require extensibility of CAMP's data type mechanism to allow them to supply additional information to the browser about how to render and/or validate attributes of resources.
> There are 3 scalar types in json - String, Numeric & Boolean as well as null
> In practice if the browser gets one of these it doesn't really need any metadata to determine which one it has received - the type is implicit in the json.
> The problem is that a String can actually represent a date, or a time interval, or there can be constraints on the range or number of decimal places in a numeric type. The browser needs to get these constraints in metadata.
> The current API specifies 2 additional base types: URI and Timestamp.  Timestamp is only used on the Sensor.  URI is widely used (see below).  
> In practice the fact that an attribute is a URI is not adequate to render it in the browser.  There are one or two (external management interface and documentation are the only ones I can remember) that aren't references to CAMP resources. The vast majority of URIs are actually references to other CAMP resources (either collections or single resources).
> These URIs need special handling in the UI. 



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