Re: [cmis] empty multivalued properties

[Al Brown <albertcbrown@us.ibm.com>]

I agree.

I'd like to keep this simple and unless the majority of repositories support not set, set: null/empty, and set: value. Right now CMIS does not have a notion of null only set and not set. I'd also like to understand better what set: null/empty means compared to not set.

-Al

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Florent Guillaume ---04/08/2009 08:43:47 AM---On 3 Apr 2009, at 15:19, Julian Reschke wrote:

From:	Florent Guillaume <fg@nuxeo.com>
To:	Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@greenbytes.de>
Cc:	cmis@lists.oasis-open.org
Date:	04/08/2009 08:43 AM
Subject:	Re: [cmis] empty multivalued properties

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On 3 Apr 2009, at 15:19, Julian Reschke wrote:
> looking at the Domain Model 0.6, Section 2.2.1:
>
> "A multi-valued property is either set or not set in its entirety.  
> An individual value of a multi-valued property SHALL NOT be in an  
> individual “value not set” state and hold a position in the list of  
> values. An empty list of values SHALL NOT be allowed."
>
> This is a really unfortunate mismatch with JCR, where repositories  
> MUST support empty multivalued properties.
>
> Is this really necessary? Could the behavior be made optional?


In most uses cases I have, an empty list can be modeled by having the  
property not set. This is enough for me, but I agree that the JCR  
model for instance is more complex than that.

I guess many existing repositories just don't support empty lists as a  
different value than null.

There's no easy solution, one model is richer than the other.

In any case I wouldn't want to see this be an optional behavior. The  
spec should specify one or the other.

Florent

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