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Subject: [OASIS Issue Tracker] Created: (OBIX-216) 14 Preformated vs Compaction

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Date: Sun, 9 Mar 2014 02:27:11 +0000 (UTC)

14 Preformated vs Compaction
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                 Key: OBIX-216
                 URL: http://tools.oasis-open.org/issues/browse/OBIX-216
             Project: OASIS Open Building Information Exchange (oBIX) TC
          Issue Type: Improvement
          Components: OBIX 1.1 Specification
    Affects Versions: OBIX 1.1 XSD PR02
         Environment: Brian Frank
            Reporter: Toby Considine
            Assignee: Craig Gemmill 


It seems like two features have been introduced which essentially solve the same problem.  If we define the ability to return history data using compact formats such as CSV, then why create another compaction model that still requires verbose XML with some new made-up plain text language?  Some thoughts:
 
  - the XML is largely the problem, so compacting within XML doesn't seem right direction
 
  - omitting timestamps seems attractive, but seems very prone to data errors; my experience is that parsing a CSV file of 15min data for year is very fast (milliseconds) and with gzip encoding its hard to beat its size; so I do not think omitting timestamps makes sense - it will likely create huge number of bugs/bad data, and doesn't seem worth the trade-offs
 
  - I think standardizing a simple CSV format with timestamp/values using a gzip transfer encoding is best overall solution
 
  - the existing pre-formatted feature is awkward and doesn't really fit into the overall design of HTTP content negotiation.  Plus it looks like it requires two requests to work right now.
 
So ideally we'd collapse all this into one new feature which is an way to use content negotiation to return a history query as CSV (or other pluggable formats). 

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