[sdo] [SDO-24]: Support for Attachments

[Radu Preotiuc-Pietro <radup@bea.com>]

Steve Brodsky [20/Apr/06 12:18 AM] 
Would these APIs from Issue #33 work? I added a MIME-TYPE parameter.

Methods to serialize DataOjects in optimal format, default is XML. These
are service interface methods.
This proposal is a part of SDO Roadmap goal #5 on External Formats.

/**
Convert the DataObjects into the SPI preferred format 
and serialize to the OutputStream. 
The SPI may use a representation that is more efficient than XML. 
The default behavior is the same as XMLHelper.save(dataObject,
"commonj.sdo", "dataObject");
*/
void serialize(DataObject dataObject, OutputStream outputStream, String
mimeType); 

/**
Convert the InputStream to DataObjects, where the InputStream is in SPI
preferred format. 
The SPI may use a representation that is more efficient than XML. 
The default behavior is the same as
XMLHelper.load(inputStream).getDataObject();
*/
dataObject deserialize(InputStream inputStream, String mimeType); 



James Taylor [20/Apr/06 02:15 AM] 
We agree that attachments should be supported, but would like this to be
part of 3.0.



Blaise Doughan [19/Sep/06 07:53 PM] 
This is a feature that we (Oracle) would still like to see in the SDO
specification, but we are willing to drop this as a requirement for
version 2.1 and add it to the list of features being considered for
version 3.0.




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