Re: [wsrp] ExtensionDescription

[Subbu Allamaraju <subbu@bea.com>]

> item. When required, such information can easily be described/encoded
> the  contextual relationship with other items. Instead of solving this

Meant to say "described/encoded within the type".

Subbu


> in the spec, we can let the owner of custom profile items solve it.
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> Subbu
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>  > Rich
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>  > *Subbu Allamaraju <subbu@bea.com>*
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>  > 08/22/05 11:14 AM
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>  >       Re: [wsrp] ExtensionDescription
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>  > Andre Kramer wrote:
>  >  > My fundamental concerns are totally with regards to the definition of
>  >  > extensions that are outside the scope of WSRP. These, as I understand
>  >  > it, are to be carried in <extensions> elements containing an “any” 
> value
>  >  > and for reason of future evolution and extensibility should be 
> left open
>  >  > and not described in our protocol IMHO.
>  >
>  > This is my concern as well.
>  >
>  > The key use case here is to carry some to carry data of unknown type of
>  > a feature described in the spec. In prior discussions, we seem to be
>  > mixing up "data of unknown type" with extensions. To me, these are two
>  > different things.
>  >
>  > For this kind of data, we already have the property mechanism, and
>  > custom profile items can easily be mapped to properties.
>  >
>  > So, my proposal would be to add a field to the UserContext.
>  >
>  > <complexType name="UserContext">
>  >   <sequence>
>  >     <element name="userContextKey" type="xsd:string"/>
>  >     <element name="userCategories" type="xsd:string"
>  >              minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded"/>
>  >     <element name="profile"
>  >             type="types:UserProfile" minOccurs="0"/>
>  >     <element name="customUserProfileItems"
>  >             type="types:CustomUserProfileItem"
>  >             minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded"/>
>  >     <element name="extensions" type="types:Extension"
>  >             minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded"/>
>  >   </sequence>
>  > </complexType>
>  >
>  > In this proposal, I am intentially ignoring the question of "extending
>  > UserProfile" at each level. That approach seems to be muddying the
>  > waters further, and does not map very well at the conceptual level 
> either.
>  >
>  > Regards,
>  >
>  > Subbu
>  >
>  >
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