Re: [wsrp] [errata #19] Mode change conformance statement

[Subbu Allamaraju <subbu@bea.com>]

Alejandro Abdelnur wrote:
> Why do we need the ", but the Portlet must not depend on such a request 
> being respected." ?
> 
> Can we remove it?

The portlet should not assume so, which I think is inline with the 
conformance statement.

Subbu


> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Alejandro
> 
> On Tuesday, May 20, 2003, at 10:54 AM, Rich Thompson wrote:
> 
> 
>     *5/13/03 (F2F)
>     *Conformance statement for mode would be better in section 6.8. It
>     should also be reworded for clarity to the portlet developer.
> 
>     Document: Spec
>     Section:  6.1.12
>     Old Text: The Consumer MAY choose to respect this request to change
>     the mode, but since the Portlet cannot depend on that choice it MUST
>     NOT encode this new mode into any of its stateful settings. Rather,
>     the Portlet MUST compute any such impact on stateful settings after
>     the Consumer has actually changed the mode.
> 
>     New Text: See section 6.8 relative to the processing of such requests.
> 
> 
>     Document: Spec
>     Section:  6.8
>     Old Text: Whether or not such a request is honored is up to the
>     Consumer and often will depend on access control settings for the
>     End-User.
> 
>     New Text: The Consumer MUST respect requests to change the mode
>     outside of exceptional circumstances (e.g. access control
>     restrictions), but the Portlet must not depend on such a request
>     being respected. 
> 
>