Re: [wsrp] Producer writing - clarification

[Subbu Allamaraju <subbu@bea.com>]

Rich Thompson wrote:
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> I see ... I miss understood the request. To recap, we currently have:
> 
> 1. The Producer replaces spec-defined tokens (including enclosing curly 
> braces) with appropriate values, using the empty string if the Producer 
> has no value.
> 
> The proposal is to add:
> 
> 2. The Producer treats any content between curly braces which do not 
> match spec-defined tokens as constants (much like the text outside the 
> braces).
> 
> Question: Wouldn't this limit the ability for an extension to define 
> additional tokens? Would it suffice to relax the request to "unknown 
> tokens" rather than "spec-defined tokens"? Or would that open too many 
> holes ...

Good catch. I agree. Unknown is enough.

Subbu


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> *Subbu Allamaraju <subbu@bea.com>*
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> 01/18/06 09:10 AM
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> I noted that. The new statement talks about replacing unknown but
> spec-specified tokens with "". I'm referring to braces that may contain
> arbitrary characters. Such content should be treated as constants since
> they may contain instructions for the consumer or user-agent to process.
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> Subbu
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> Rich Thompson wrote:
>  >
>  > We already had that discussion and added the following conformance
>  > statement to v2 (section 10.2.2; line 3879 in draft 13 - two sentences
>  > before the conformance statement you quote):
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>  > These tokens are enclosed in curly braces (i.e. “{” and “}”) and contain
>  > the name of the portlet URL parameter which the Producer MUST replace
>  > (using "" for those parameters where the Producer has no value).
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>  > Rich
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>  > *Subbu Allamaraju <subbu@bea.com>*
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>  > 01/17/06 01:06 PM
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>  > Currently, we have a conformance statement in page 93 of draft 13 which
>  > reads as
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>  > "All content outside the {} pairs MUST be treated by the
>  > Producer/Portlet as constants the Consumer needs to receive when the
>  > portlet URL is activated."
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>  > I would like to suggest additional wording to say that if content within
>  > a {} pair does not match spec defined replacement tokens, the Producer
>  > should treat such content similar to the content outside {} pairs.
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>  > Such a statement would go the extra mile in clarifying that consumers
>  > might use braces in templates in ways not defined in the spec.
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>  > Subbu
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