Re: [provision] Provider may need to know requester's profile.

[Gary P Cole <Gary.P.Cole@Sun.COM>]

I think we forgot about this one.  I never recorded it as a spec issue 
or an XSD issue. 
Do we still want to make these changes?

Bohren, Jeffrey wrote:

>I agree that it would be very useful for a single SPML service to support
>multiple profiles. In addition to allowing the client to specify the profile
>on the listTargets request, the supported profile should be returned on the
>targets returned in the response. 
> 
>Jeff Bohren
>BMC
> 
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>From: Gary P Cole [mailto:Gary.P.Cole@Sun.COM] 
>Sent: Fri 5/13/2005 12:12 PM 
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>Subject: [provision] Provider may need to know requester's profile.
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>An SPML profile represents a set of assumptions about how requestor and 
>provider will use SPML.  The requestor should probably pass a profile 
>identifier in with a listTargetsRequest.  The provider may want to 
>expose a different set of targets for each profile. 
>
>For example, suppose that a provider can expose the same target (system 
>or application) with either native XML schema *or* with the DSMLv2 
>schema model.  If the provider knows what the requestor wants or 
>expects, the provider can return a target that suits the requestor's 
>profile. 
>
>Otherwise, I guess the provider could return both targets (even if both 
>represent the same underlying system or application) and let the 
>requestor decide, based on each target's schema, which target the 
>requestor prefers. 
>
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